I guess you never watched TOS or NG. Episodes brought to light issues that paralleled the prevailing topics of the time such as racism, transgender, homosexuality, bi-racial relationships, the cold war, what defines humanity, etc, etc, etc.

Wrath of Khan...the best Star Trek movie, to date...even though the special effects are 30 years out of date. Get off my lawn!

Yes I totally agree. See my original comment.

What Abrams did with the Star Trek Franchise was use all young/beautiful actors to portray the characters, use modern movie special effects, and take away most of the science that was usually the hallmark of the series (note: I said USUALLY) and replaced it with a lot of fast-paced action sequences. This may make the reboots "Cool" in the public consciousness but for me, the reboot was totally mindless and boring. I'll wait until the second movie in the reboot is available on Movie2K.com. That's right, I wouldn't even pay to see it on streaming video. I can't wait to see the disaster the JJ Abrams makes of the upcoming Star Wars trilogy, a la Disney. I'm sure I'll get down-modded by any ST-Reboot fanz here and I don't care. I like the old school ST...ST-TOS and ST-NG. Now, get off my lawn!

There goes my retirement income.

Sadly, I'm inclined to agree with you. Anything that is smart and geeky, even if it dressed up with the wit and style of deGrasse Tyson, will be deemed too cerebral by Fox execs. They will move the show to an odd timeslot, the ratings will summarily drop, and then they will cancel the show, citing low ratings.

You must have seen the "Carl Sagan for Rednecks" parody on Family Guy. If not, look for it on Youtube. Its hilarious.

You mean like Futurama :-(

Michio Kaku would be a close contender but deGrasse Tyson has more Charisma and humor.

I'd mod you up a "funny" but I have no mod points :-(

Neil DeGrasse Tyson is awesome. He is the only suitable successor, IMO, to Carl Sagan for a remake.

Didn't North Carolina recently make Christianity the official state religion?...Thus, violating a few federal laws that trump state laws, such as the Establishment Clause of the 1st Amendment and maybe Article 6, Section 3? Truly, this is a backwards state.

Aren't the red shirts the ones who always die first?

I used to be an electrical engineer, working strictly with hardware. Then, a layoff and lousy job market forced me to make a career change. I went back to school for a grad degree in Computer Science. It was difficult for someone like me who started out without a software background but I've been working as a Software Engineer III for 1 1/2 years now. I'm now working with Java, Groovy, Spring, Hibernate, Solr...just to name a few. IT is a thriving market now and in the foreseeable future.

Understood. we are the trailer-trash of the universe.