It was an age of infamy, deep in what some consider the darkest years of Trekdom. Deep Space Nine was gone. All that was left was Voyager. So Paramount let this be made to celebrate ... what, exactly? It wasn't any significant anniversary for the bona fide cultural phenomenon that was Trek. There was no new show or movie on the horizon. It was like they were just putting out a program to take up space and remind us that Trek lives. Emptiness would have been preferable. They should have remembered that even in the Trek-less years of the early '70s, the fans still had plenty of fun.
In this show, the jokes were weak, the acting weaker. Jason Alexander couldn't do a Kirk impression if his life depended on it. Kevin Pollak would have been so much better, but this was Alexander's own vanity project as executive producer. Apparently nobody around him had the compassion to tell him what a bad idea it was. In the few moments when this wasn't painful, it was just plain boring. Watching any episode of the original show would have been a hundred times more enjoyable. It was an insult to any true fan. The actors looked, sounded and and acted nothing like the characters they were supposed to be playing, which made for severe distraction, something they could ill afford in a program as wretched as this. Luckily, for most viewers, this program has been mercifully forgotten. Maybe it's an intentional amnesia.
But what do I know? Maybe I just need to get a life.
In this show, the jokes were weak, the acting weaker. Jason Alexander couldn't do a Kirk impression if his life depended on it. Kevin Pollak would have been so much better, but this was Alexander's own vanity project as executive producer. Apparently nobody around him had the compassion to tell him what a bad idea it was. In the few moments when this wasn't painful, it was just plain boring. Watching any episode of the original show would have been a hundred times more enjoyable. It was an insult to any true fan. The actors looked, sounded and and acted nothing like the characters they were supposed to be playing, which made for severe distraction, something they could ill afford in a program as wretched as this. Luckily, for most viewers, this program has been mercifully forgotten. Maybe it's an intentional amnesia.
But what do I know? Maybe I just need to get a life.