Marsden is Here

D and I have now been a couple for six years. Our relationship has ups and downs but an abundance of mutual respect and a commitment to talking things through as they arise has seen us through without approaching any breaking points. We don't get as much "us" time as either of us would like, as I try and time together alongside as much work time as I can manage[1], house and garden duties[2] and time just for me[3].

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Went to the movie last night with quite a sizable group, as a casual fan I quite enjoyed it.

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The designers did a good job of harking back to the originals with the fairly blocky lines of the starships and other elements such as fit of the uniforms. Overall the movie actually felt kind of raw and like something beginning, that hadn't quite found it's feet yet. That might be what excited me the most. I saw a Star Trek where earth is still finding it's feet in the Universe; where it is crewing its starships with graduates straight out of the Academy - not necessarily because of the attrition of some ongoing war but because it is still building its fleet. The movie conveyed that there is a whole new universe of possibilities out there in a way that I think Enterprise (as the most recent approximation) didn't.

The Star Trek Roleplaying games have always used the lines along "the Enterprise is one of the best known ships of Star Fleet, but there are other ships and crews with equally illustrious careers". It's always seemed to be a bit of a cop out. With this reset of Star Trek though - I can see playing a game in this setting and actually feeling like you are stepping out and creating your own legend which could match or supersede the Enterprise's entries in the annuals of the Federation rather than being overshadowed by them.