If you fancy a night in watching a DVD, then take a look at the selection available at Island Libraries. At just £1 per night, they’re a great bargain. Ed
Appearing at the overhead storage facility of knowledge and wonder that is Ventnor Library, is a DVD that is so compact that it almost vibrates with the enthusiasm of its own inner-glow.
Causing baby-sitters across the world to sigh with relief collectively and relax for at least 122 minutes on Earth, safe with the knowledge that although space may be infinite, cold and alarmingly dangerous.
Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Uhuru, Zulu and Chekhov will take care of whatever the hell is going on up there.
Enthusiasm for the subject, of startling effects and some very impressive direction by J.J. Abrams allow this to be a very good attempt to pass the baton on and it is extremely action-packed and fast from the very moment it starts.
However, it is large and vast and the scale of America and the gung-ho approach of the energy blasting throughout, reveals that for a younger generation, their own consumption can be as vast and infinite as space.
For if anything, it will hopefully remind its audience of the name Gene Roddenberry, or throw out an attractive angle towards all the connections that converge from watching it.
Yet as a complete DVD experience it shows just how far technology can go but does not have the depth that some extremely profound episodes of the TV series managed to explore.
‘Star Trek’ is entertaining throughout and does keep to a more scientifically specified directive and hopefully will cause at least some of the audience to appreciate that the simple act of enthusiasm for an idea, that although inspired by events of the 1960’s caused Gene Rodenberry to indeed explore.
