Brief interviews with various Trekkies.
The opening bit and the title makes it out to be a parody of Star Trek fanaticism, but that’s a completely false impression. There’s no humor at all after that, and it’s basically just an “exploration” of the “meaning” of Star Trek. If you’re not a Trekkie, you’ll probably think it’s an incredibly fawning treatment of a tv show. I like Star Trek, but even I find it FAR too sentimental and self-worshipping.
To say it’s pretentious would be…an understatement. It’s beyond pretentious, into laughable.
Yes, there are moving moments…but they’re not because of Star Trek. They’re because you see people that are feeling obvious deep emotion. Such deep emotion is common to life, not exclusive in any way to Star Trek.
As Shatner himself said later in the taken-from-SNL bit used to open this, “It’s just a tv show, it’s just a tv show!!”
Grade: D-
1/17/13: See ‘Pupdate: Documentary Grade Edits’. Grade: F