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A interesting, if limited insight into the mind of an overconfident, youngster. We meet Trekie, knowing little more about
him than the fact that he likes Star Trek and the Matrix, and a quickly thrown into his mind. The portrait of the tween is
told through a series of self-indulgent short prose pieces. Each is the discription of an action sequence that esstentially
he thought would be cool in a movie. It's obvious from the terminology he uses that he has no interest in film-history or
technique, preferring to describe the viewers experience as he hopes it would be. Like unfocused fan fiction, it flits between
genres with no attempt to address conventions. We're forced to assume this is due to ignorance and not a consicous choice.
The vocabulary is as limited as the scope of the imagination, and in describing his own work the character of 'Trekie' repeatedly
uses the terms 'awesome' and 'amazing'.
While the author successfully depicts the delusions of creativity, and the self-congratulating nature of this type of
pre-teen, he seems to have little to say beyond that. Trekie continues his weekly posts into what he calls a second 'season',
but no development of the character takes place, and the content remains very similar. Is this a meditation on the boredom
of adolescence? A diatribe against the way yound people are coddled at school and made to feel special? Perhaps the portrait
is meant to warn us against the effects of privelege, by showing the entitlment that goes with this inexperience, and the
confidence that what he has to say is worth hearing.
All of these ideas can be read into the project, but none are specifically developed. The frame of discussing the topic
through a series of short webposts is original, but the premise alone is not enough to save the project from its own mediocrity.
We are left feeling that, much like his protagonist Trekie, the author would have been better off focusing on learning more
about his craft before embarking on this work.
-Trekie, 2016
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