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Star Trek, a new frontier from an old formula. It had seemed the franchise had gotten comfortable and had rested on an formula of the trekkies. Trekkies are fans that had a fondness for the original 1966 series. Those fans with fondness for a utopian world and a picket fence mentality. However fans have started getting older. Like some of the original characters of Kirk, Spock and McCoy, the former baby boomer trekkies have gone on to other concerns.

In this new age the movie Star Trek 2009 comes out. You could call it “Star Trek, a New Look and an Old Beginning”. In this movie the histories of Captain Kirk and Ambassador Spock are examined. The two iconic characters are revisited for who they were and how they came to end up on the Enterprise that started this great adventure in the first place.

The previews seem to show a movie that is brash and full of adventure. Created by the people who created ” Lost”. The movie has been promised to take the genre in a different direction.

However, as far as the genre goes where will the franchise go after the exploration of the origins of Kurk and Spock? The genre cannot revive on the shoulders of the Trek superheroes. People want to go forward not backward. This is one of the reasons for the decline of the last series “Enterprise”. The series was trying to rehash and explain Star Trek past. Viewers are looking for the new, the creative and the innovative combined with a good story.

This was the advantaged Star Trek had. It was new. It was the first show to explore how we as humans would organize and survive in space and how we build relationships with other species we met on our journey.

It was creative and innovative. It showed phasers, transporters and eventually holodecks, mobile emitters, and much more, all things that were innovative, creative and seemed completely believable and plausible as things that actually could exist.

However, what made Star Trek was the relationships. The relationship of the fiery astute emotion of Kirk juxtapose to the cool, detached aura of Spock. The wonder of the seeking human adventure and understanding of Data in the Next Generation, to the battle of good and evil between the forces of Benjamin Sisko and the founders and the forces of Gul Ducat and the Pah Raith in Deep Space Nine, to the adventures of the Halogram Doctor, the care free Talaxian Trader Chef and the No nonsense Vulcan in Star Trek Voyager, this is the strength of the Star Trek franchise.

But in the age of Rap music and You Tube, the old formulas starting getting stale and failed to be innovating. There was nothing new and no new creativity.

Some connections that were missing were starting to be glaring. What was the true type of relationships that would happen aboard a Starship? Would there illicit relationships and other human frailties that would take place? Did the crew have a relationship with the media and Internet like officers of today do?

These lack of question about realism started to affect the show.

What Star Trek must do is combine realism with technological innovation and a good relationship building storyline.

Hopefully Star Trek 2009 will take the genre in that direction.