v i d e o Trekkies
Director : Roger Nygard
Cast : William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, James Doohan, DeForest Kelley, Nichelle Nichols, Walter Koenig, George Takei, Michael Dorn, Brent Spiner, Denise Crosby, Majel Barrett Roddenberry
(Paramount Pictures) Rated: PG by Sabadino Parker
PopMatters Film Critic
Fascinating, Captain S pock was right: humans certainly are illogical. What other race of organisms in this universe would include a population so enraptured by a thirty-year-old, three-season-long television series, that they devote their lives to imitating character behaviors and accumulating trivial knowledge about the show's fictional science? Such illogical devotees are the subject of Roger Nygard's documentary Trekkies , an interesting foray into the world of avid and eccentric Star Trek fans that is sometimes derisive, often funny, and occasionally scary in its portrayal of the most advanced stages of Star Trek fandom. Trekkies 's analysis of this odd cultural phenomenon isn't especially deep. If you are familiar with the original Star Trek series, not much in the film will surprise you, and if you've never watched Kirk smooth his way into yet another interspecies sexual encounter, then you probably won't care. There's no introduction to the series or its dynamics, so a viewer unversed in the Prime Directive will most likely get lost in all the talk about Klingon culture, futuristic gadgetry, and interplanetary politics; but there are some tear-jerking tales of real people that'll move the hearts of even the most pragmatic individuals. | |
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