Today is Tyler’s birthday. I called him on the phone to sing him happy birthday this morning. I still remember the moment he was born. He sure has grown a lot since then.

I went to see Star Trek this evening. It was indeed awesome. Aside from what you may already know a couple of things that caught me by surprise was the both Eric Bana and Winona Ryder was it in. I didn’t recognize them at all during the movie. However, an actor I recognized right away was Simon Pegg as Scotty. That caught me completely off guard. My only complaints are that there was too much “earthy” stuff at the beginning. They managed to do product placement for Nokia and fit a Beastie Boys song in. Huh? Also, it seems that bad guys the world over are drawn to the Golden Gate bridge. Thankfully, it *didn’t* get destroyed. If I were the Romulans I might choose to attack Earth in the middle of the desert somewhere in Africa. Not right next to the Star Fleet Academy. What’s cool though is that San Francisco actually looked like you might imagine San Francisco would look in the future.

Despite those small complaints it was a great step for the Star Trek franchise. Of the five Star Trek movies I have seen this one is right up there with Wrath of Kahn.