We love Wil Wheaton here at Slice of SciFi. He was one of the first major actors to promo our show, has been a past guest and has remained a loyal friend and strong supporter ever since. We are also glad that he has finally chimed in and made his first real public comments about the new J.J. Abrams re-invention of the classic Trek characters. This week on his outstanding blog Wil held nothing back and in his usual straight-forward and unabashed way let the verbal slings and arrows fly. Here is just a sampling of his thoughts on the subject of the new Star Trek movie.

“‘”Re-inventing?’ Uh-oh! I’m not sure how i feel about this.”

“Speaking as a lifelong geek, my knee-jerk reaction when I hear someone talking about “reinventing” something like Trek is that it will be a tower of suck, built out of an endless supply of Jar-Jars and midichlorians.”

“However! Ron Moore reinvented BSG, and it’s the greatest thing ever, so reinventing things isn’t automatically horrible. In fact, if the article had been titled “JJ Abrams promises thrilling effects for Star Trek movie” I’d be celebrating right now. Language is important, as they say.”

“I guess it comes down to who is doing the reinventing, and if their vision builds upon the existing foundation in an interesting way, instead of pulling a massive, insulting retcon on us all. In his favor, JJ Abrams is really, really good at starting things (not so much with the keeping them awesome after one season, sadly,) but absolutely awesome at starting things. Since this is the beginning of Star Trek, I’m hopeful. Apprehensive, but hopeful.”

“I’m going to commit heresy right now and say what few people are willing to say out loud: most of the Star Trek movies are absolute garbage. There have been ten Trek movies, and I’d say that two of them are accessible to mainstream audiences, another two are great, and the remaining six are nearly unwatchable. If JJ Abrams wants to make his new Trek movie unlike the 80% of Trek movies that aren’t that good, that’s just fine with me. Not that my opinion means anything, you understand, but rambling on and on about things like this is the price of being a geek, and I regret nothing. NOTHING!”

Read Wil’s full comments HERE.