Believe it or not I still haven’t seen ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’. I must be the only self-confessed trekkie not to have done so. The truth is, it did not appeal to me; I did not feel as compelled to go see it in the cinema as I would if it were a trek film of the old sort. You see this new type of star trek – the sort begun with the 2009 reboot – does not feel like trek should; it feels completely different from the franchise I grew up with. However, I cannot, I suppose, close my mind to it; the 007 franchise constantly reinvents itself – that is, in fact – one of it’s defining features. That is why I bought ‘Into Darkness’ on dvd today. I’ll probably post a short review on here soon, but part of me still fears that the science fiction franchise I grew up loving is now gone forever, replaced by something with the same name but a totally different aesthetic and soul.