Prometheus takes on God

BY FIRAS AL-ATRAQCHI Cairo: In 1966, Federation Starfleet Captian James T. Kirk promised that the Enterprise’s mission would go where no man has gone before. In “Star Trek: The Final Frontier” (1989), Kirk and his crew almost fulfill that promise, but their audience with God, the Creator, turns sour when they discover the deity is not what he seems. In “Prometheus,” this year’s much anticipated summer sci-fi blockbuster, iconic filmmaker Ridley Scott may have discovered man’s ultimate destination in an alien Kingdom of Heaven. Or is it Hell? “Prometheus” kicks off with beautiful vistas of what appears to be a…