Pun Salad

You might have noticed I've been chomping at the bit. We went to the 9:40pm showing at the Strand Theatre in Dover, NH, a beloved dumpy old place with a big screen.

Although I invariably blog about movies I see, I don't consider them "reviews"; it's just stuff I feel like saying. And Star Trek is pretty much review-proof: you almost certainly know whether or not you want to see it, and nothing you read here will change your mind.

That said, it's fantastic. There's plenty of action from start to finish. The characters are sharply drawn without descending into psychobabble.

And, as usual, the guy in the red shirt gets it.

There's lots of humor, including many of the catchphrases we Trek geeks love.

Why, there's even a brief nod for the three dozen or so of us who liked Enterprise.

A huge amount of fun for someone who's been watching Star Trek in one form or another since 1966.