Star Trek is finally dead. Author Orson Scott Card says it is about time. In a irritated write up in the LA Times he lists all things that were wrong about it. Especially the fans’ obsession.

They started making costumes and wearing pointy ears. They wrote messages in Klingon, they wrote their own stories about the characters, filling in what was left out — including, in one truly specialized subgenre, the “Kirk-Spock” stories in which their relationship was not as platonic and emotionless as the TV show depicted it.

The network, he says:

….flushed William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy down into the great septic tank of broadcast waste, from which no traveler…. No, wait, let’s get this right: from which rotting ideas and aging actors return with depressing regularity.

Maybe somethinng is wrong with me. Though Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card, is one of my favourite Sci-Fi books,I am not really sure that i will enjoy watching a film based on the stroy. There are very few classic science fiction books that translate into good television. And, I am not really sure whether Star Trek, Star Wars, or even Dune fit into the science fiction category. For me they are more science fantasies.
They make for great timepass viewing.
I loved Bladerunner as a movie. But, i am not quite sure whether i will tune in week on week for something that depressing!
I for one will miss the Star Trek universe – its card board characters, its pat storylines, and its instafix for the universes’ problems.