Well, maybe mot ha-ha funny.

What is it with this generation? Don't you like to look at, or touch/feel, like ANYthing?!

TOMORROW: Catering Firm for the cast and crew of Star Trek announced!

Feh. A miracle could occur and this'll all come out decent, but I gotta tell ya, seeing this many folks thrown at this thing only makes it look worse and worse. I say we call it "Star Trek Returns" from now on, because y'all're gonna go into the theater with high hopes, and then leave sayin' "The fuck was THAT?!?"

At this point Nimoy is gonna be the only recognizable Trek star in this shit!

Every announcement just makes this sounds worse and worse!

Couldn't James Tubbyrius Kirk have an earlier--thinner--version of himself taken from the transporter pattern buffer?

Think about it: what are the two most defining aspects of the Nexus? A, that it gives you everything you'd ever wanted and B, there's thus no way you'd ever leave. So where's the logic in not one, but TWO people finding neither of these aspects to be true, i.e. both Picard AND Kirk? Isn't it a much more reasonable concept, working within the framework set up by the movie, that what Picard REALLY wanted was to save the day and prevent the bad guy from winning? So the Nexus gave him exactly what he wanted: the ability to leave it with someone whom he admired and could help, and provided him with a win-able scenario. So in "reality," good ol' Jean-Luc goes off to have what he really wants in the Nexus, to continue to captain a ship named Enterprise, and Jimmy T. is still in there as well, enjoying his own perfect life, captaining his own Enterprise and having great adventures himself. However, in the real world outside the Nexus, the sun went nova, nuking its solar system, the remainder of Enterprise-D and its crew, being as it crash-landed on the planet from which Dr. Soran launched his Nexus-attracting, nuke-the-sun missile (oh, and he made it into the Nexus as well; yes, the bad guy actually won this time).

So if you're REALLY being a continuity/logic geek, technically, the remaining Next Gen movies, DS9 seasons 4-7 and maybe even some of Voyager never really happened, because they all involved known dead people, i.e. the former crew of Enterprise-D. Yes, I know that *actually* ALL of this is fiction, but I'm speaking within the framework of the movie and reasoning it out as best as I can given the facts presented. Not that the actual writers gave a brother any help. I can only assume Braga went over the script AFTER Moore knocked it out, 'cause the same man that gave us the great remake of Galactica, which hangs together remarkably well, couldn't have been solely responsible for that hash of a screenplay!

Anyhow, that's why I largely ignore all this Next Gen/Berman-Braga crap. I cut the Original Star Trek some slack for being a pioneer in its time and having to write for a less sophisticated audience. These latter-day incompetents have no such excuses or justifications available to them. They just sucked and thank the GODS that they're no longer in control. I'm not exactly jazzed about what I hear from the J.J. Abrams production, but in this case, better the devil I DON'T know!