Continuing with this week's theme of criticizing things that everybody likes but me, I would like to give my opinion of the new Star Trek movie. What J.J. Abrams has done is take the original, contemplative Star Trek and Poochified it.

I trust if you're reading this blog, you are familiar with Poochie from The Itchy & Scratchy Show on The Simpsons. Poochie was a contrived "cool" character brought onto the show to boost ratings. Everyone hated Poochie, though. The young, cocky, frat-Kirk as played by Chris Pine is essence of Poochie, if you ask me.

While the movie isn't awful as a pure action flick, let's just say I stand by this prediction from my New Year comic I drew for C-VILLE Weekly:

Oh, and don't get me started on the gender stuff. The original Star Trek was remarkably progressive in its day; to honor that, Abrams could have thrown in at least a couple interesting female leads. This is the age of Battlestar Galactica, baby. We can handle a Captain Thrace or two. The fact that Uhura is portrayed as a "smart" piece of ass does not quite cut it. Nichelle Nichols was better. So congrats, J.J.! You've "rebooted" the franchise back to the 1950s! Talk about time travel...