In recent years, the number of people watching the Star Trek TV series has fallen, and the company which made them has decided that it will not make any more. This is sad news for thousands of Star Trek fans throughout the world.

　　But is Star Trek dead? Some fans are determined that Star Trek will never die. A group of fans in Dundee in Scotland are making their own Star Trek film. They have built a film set of the inside of a space ship. They have made their own costumes.They have filmed outside scenes in the highlands of Scotland. There they faced problems such as the rain (it rains a lot in Scotland), and sheep which wandered onto the set going baaah. Most of the filming is now complete, and the film should be available for free download from the internet later this year. You can visit the film’s website (details on the podcast website) to see still pictures and video clips from the film. It looks great.

　　In Star Trek, Captain Kirk and the crew of the starship Enterprise set out “to boldly go where no man has gone before”. This phrase has become famous. But many people say that it is not good English. “To go” is an infinitive, and it is generally best to keep the two parts of the infinitive (“to” and”go”) together and not to “split the infinitive” (that is, to put another word in the middle.) It is better to say “to go boldly where no man has gone before”. But other people, and all Star Trek fans, say that this is boring and pedantic and that there is nothing wrong with “to boldly go..”. I think that there are bigger problems in the world than split English infinitives.