2009年5月4日 星期一

One of the most successful media franchise: Star Trek

"to boldly go where no man has gone before", is the famous slogan of Star Trek episodes. This month, a new movie with the original name "Star Trek" would try to capture all the trekkers once more. Debuted in 1966, Star Trek episodes were credit with a perfect reflection of contemporary human society such as racism, religion, sexism, feminism and human rights, having a totally different view which emphasized future government and society evolution comparing to the other famous science fiction movie, Star War.

Beside the fiction story stimulating our imagination to the future, Star Trek also brought up some ideas about ideal human society and technologies. The United Federation of Planets in Star Trek represents the model civilization in cosmic space. Basically, it is the Utopia of mankind and was injected with many American values. And after almost 40 years later, its story and adventure spirit behind the scenes still fascinate many people.

The episodes evolved to many different series since the premier edition. However, the television channels in Taiwan have not introduced any new series since "Star Trek: The Next Generation" series, which is a pity to all fans. It is why the most of Trekkers in Taiwan are not familiar with the latest characters showed up in "Deep Space Nine", "voyager" and "Enterprise" series. For aged fans, boldly Kirk, smart Spock and nervous Dr. "Bones" McCoy are always legendary and un-replaceable. As for young fans, they probably love captain "Picard" and Data instead due to their era. Now, its time for these new generations to know what is true legend and what is the real meaning of "Star Trek" by the new movie.


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