The Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek

When watching this series, take a moment to listen. Almost the entire thing is scored like a Tom & Jerry cartoon. It's distracting and insulting. It sounds as if they didn't think we were capable to paying attention otherwise. Someone says something like "I was told they might not renew my contract", and the music makes a big dun-dun-DUHNNNN. Or "So, again, we went back to Gene for his advice" - cue cartoon whipping sound and quick zoom to shot of Gene Roddenberry. Crap like that. What are we, six years old? As I said, insulting.

The shows jump around from one trivial detail to the next, with no sense of narrative or point. It seems like they told their interviewees to just start talking about anything Star Trek related and whatever came out they'd use. So, for example, in the segment about The Wrath of Khan, they covered the mechanism of the slug crawling into Chekov's ear for several minutes (spoiler: they pulled it with a STRING! Ooh, fascinating...) and yet topics like introducing KIRK HAVING A SON in the same movie was never mentioned. Presumably because none of the subjects happened to talk about it.

Seeing shows like this makes me want to call up the filmmakers and yell at them. The most frustrating thing is that we just have to sit still and take it. Thus this review.