A few months ago, I had the pleasure of attending a showing of the new movie Star Trek written byRoberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, starring Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto and directed by J.J. Abrams. Not only was the movie impressive on a number of different levels including casting, performance, direction and plot, but it really got me to thinking…
How would my best friend and captain Aeneas have handled being the captain of a starship in the future that is depicted in Star Trek?
Who does the public want as their personal captain in Space, the Final Frontier?
Now, good friends of mine who inhabit fiction will argue day-in and day-out as to who is the better captain in the Star Trek mythology, but I wondered how Aeneas would stack up to Captain James T. Kirk as a starship captain. So, I went straight to the campus of Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT during their reunion and commencement weekend to see what I could find.
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