Lyn and I have a very, VERY three days coming up. Although I’m now officially allowed to say what she is up to since it has been leaked on Twitter and in the press,

I sill don’t want to state it openly on here in order that those who don’t know still have a surprise on sunday (big hint there!) Today is the last day of calm before the storm, and even then L has a photoshoot this afternoon. Thus this morning I’ve just been mulling around on the web, checking up on things I check up on from time to time.

On such thing is the possibility of a new Star Trek series coming out. With the first Hobbit film coming out soon, and Skyfall due for release in October, the only thing missing to complete my trilogy of obsessions was a new Trek. I know the sequel to Abrams’ reboot comes out next year, but to me that doesn’t count as I don’t really consider it cannon. On the other hand, it will have Benedict Cumberbatch playing Kahn, which is an intriguing prospect.

Anyway, earlier I googled ‘new star trek series’ and hit what might well be the jackpot. there are reports that Michael Dorn is working on a series called ‘captain Worf’. I rather like worf, and certainly agree that there is plenty of scope in the character for exploration, so to me this sounds like a great idea. Mind you, there have been reports of such things before which came to nothing, and the project is far from being green lit. Whether anything come of it remains to be seen. However, at the conclusion of Deep Space Nine worf was made federation ambassador to the klingon homeworld, giving rise to the possibility that this series could be more political in theme and revolve around Klingon/federation relations. That to me would certainly be worth watching, for, as is often noted, such series usually act as allegories for politics here on earth. For example, the sixth star trek film, the undescovered country, was on the surface about klingons and humans making peace, but is actually about the collapse of the USSR. Thus such a series could function as boromiter for contemporary American politics, especially when compared to previous trek incarnations, which is an intriguing prospect. This is certainly something I am going to keep an eye on; I better stop writing before I get too geeky, though.