The new movie is out next year (8th May 2009) - as a long time fan I’m really looking forward to it.

The prevailing mood on the internet amongst fan-dom is that this film will be a disaster.  I disagree, although there are some inaccuracies in the trailer (yes you construct Star ships in orbit), the most important thing is that there’s a sense of excitement!  Hard core fans tend to ignore the fat that the original ST often was slocky - more concerned with character than technology and generally impure regarding sci-fi concepts.  It was fun and the new film seems to have gone back to being character driven, much superior I hope, to the Next generation films which just never took off.