Last night I stumbled upon a film taken by an audience member at last years Star Trek London event, showing all five captains at a question and answer session. About halfway through, it emerged that there was once a short lived plan to resurrect the franchise with a film in which all five captains were brought together in some sort of time distortion and had to spend the rest of the film getting back to their own time frames. Of course, this would probably have sucked, which was probably why it was abandoned, but I must say it caught my attention too. It may well have worked; handled the right way, it might have been what the franchise needed. We live, as I see it. In an era where nothing is too far fetched: given that last year we saw the queen parachute out of a helicopter with James Bond, something which, before then, would surely have sounded totally absurd, we can’t rule anything out. That’s why I think that clip is so important: no idea can now be seen as too silly, too implausible. Thus why shouldn’t Kirk, Picard, Archer, Sisco and janeway unite in one more star trek epic? It would be a brilliant way to resurrect Trek. Indeed, before the 2009 reboot, such a stunt would have been the only way star trek could have been returned to its former cultural position. Now the reboot has been made, however, and the trek I loved has been superseded, there is little chance of that happening. Yet my point is nothing can be ruled out, so if others feel as I do about the return of proper Star trek, surely as dubious as this idea sounds it must be made so. Such a stunt would be the only way we could get proper star trek back, the way we fans knew it.