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I had a chance to watch the new Star Trek movie last Sunday and being a Trekkie since childhood I have to say that this new movie is quite possibly my favorite so far.

This movie is absolutely nothing like anything in the Star Trek franchise which, in my humble opinion, is a good and refreshing idea. The story isn’t anything that will blow your mind but none of the Trek movies have had an original storyline, you have to admit that.

The only thing that irked me about the movie was that it didn’t quite feel like a Trek movie at first but that’s probably because I wasn’t familiar with these characters from any Star Trek series. It was a bit weird connecting the new characters’ faces to the old familiar names they have been given but after about 30 minutes into the film, everything seemed natural.

If you’re an old Trekkie and haven’t watched this movie because it’s not a TOS movie, just go see it already, you’ll be blown away by the guy who plays Bones. The franchise is being continued, thank God, just not in a very strict TOS/Roddenberry way.

OK I first thought that the concept of zombie fire ants was incredibly cool in a scifi way after a colleague sent me the below link but after thinking about it for a while, this sh*t is a bit creepy.

Go ahead and read the story or the section on Wikipedia about this.

Crazy sh*t, agreed? Now scientists are using these flies as a pest control agent in several southern states which is where the creepiness comes in. What if the fly population booms and runs out of fire ants? Here’s a hint:

[the fly] is omnivorous. It has been reared from decaying vegetation, shoe polish, paint emulsions, human cadavers pickled in formalin, and even lung tissue from living people.

Does that mean that there’s a chance that we’ll become zombies? Keep your fingers crossed for the next mutation of this species and we’ll meet eachother in Ravenholm.