I loved DS9 as well.  I just hope the new film makes sense and is worth it.  I bought some of the action figures from the new movie and they’re kinda cool.  Unfortunately, to me, the Original Spock looks like the Leonard Nemoy head from Futurama.  It looks just like him, but with a Groening twist.  I feel like at any second he’s going to come to life and make some joke about William Shatner’s hair piece or his horrible acting abilities.

I agree with evilboyrobin—Chris Pine in his underwear is a sight to behold!  I loved it…I was never a fan of the Star Trek universe, but I am now…

Hilarious video from The Onion:

Trekkies Bash New Star Trek Film As ‘Fun, Watchable’

saw it, loved it. report ends.

$76.5 million. Not too shabby.

CHANCE

This is an action movie with Trek dressings.  It’s not a Trek movie.  F JJ Abrams!

Well, I’m a pretty hardcore old-time fan, and despite Sooner’s diss, I have to say that this IS a Star Trek movie, and the best since First Contact. It’s a great reboot, with the optimism about the future so crucial to the Trek sensibility intact. The cast was impeccable. Was it a perfect movie? No, of course not—no such creature exists. But it’s exactly what we—and the franchise—needed.

It could have been a great Trek movie but as far as I’m concerned it’s not.

Well, we all must respect diversity of opinion on matters as personal as art and entertainment. Nothing is universally beloved in the world of entertainment—there are even people out there who don’t care for Oz (either with or without the Wizard).

I reject the new trek and if that means the old trek is gone, then I have had 40 years of fun with it.

Not that I don’t accept that Sooner is entitled to his opinion, it just seems kind of fanboyishly peevish; it’s like saying “The only real Fantastic Four is Stan and Jack’s—and everyone else’s version is completely dismissable and without merit.” Which is completely unfair to subsequent creators. If someone wants to consider the Trek franchise dead in their eyes, so be it—but things change and evolve, and people need to learn to, if not accept it, then at least not resent it.

Frankly, this is the only possible way the franchise would have survived, especially after the financial and critical failure of Nemesis.  Star Trek films were always too concerned with conveying a message and were too much aimed at diehard Trek fans.  The reason First Contact did so well is because it played down those tendencies and added a bit of action movie to the formula. 

The thing that struck me as I watched the new film was how kinetic and immediate it was.  Star Trek films have always seemed to me to be far too stately and full of themselves to truly enjoy on an entertainment level.  It was like in some way, Star Trek believed it was more refined than your average science fiction excursion.  This film was thrilling, exciting, and the cast was wonderful to watch.  I almost forgot in many times that I WAS watching a Star Trek film.  I mean, Sulu kicked ass, Uhura had something to do, and the tone had enough darkness to keep me intrigued.

Now, does that mean the hardcore, old school fans are right to be pissed off?  They certainly have the right to do that.  After all, as the marketing blitz let us know, this is NOT your Dad’s Star Trek.  But let me ask those angry fans this: would you have rather seen the whole franchise slide into complete and total irrelevance?  There was nowhere else for the series to go.  If they didn’t reboot it, they would have just done the same, tired two-hour long episode that the last two movies turned out to be, and that would have been the final nail in the coffin.

Look what a reboot did for the Batman franchise, a series that was all but written off after the disastrous Mardi Gras hangover that was Batman & Robin.  The cast of this Star Trek film are all signed up for multi-picture contracts, and the massive opening weekend of this film (it made more in 3-and-a-half days than most of the other films have made in their entire domestic run) is going to ensure that they get made.  It’s going to bring new fans into the fold, people who dismissed Star Trek as beneath them but may now explore the rest of the franchise thanks to this very mainstream movie. 

Hell, I haven’t considered myself a Trek fan for years.  I loved “Voyager”, but I hated (HATED) “Enterprise”, and the last two movies left me cold.  Now, I want to go see the new film a second time.  I consider this a complete success.

I’m totally not going to accept and I really don’t care who knows.  Nor do I care about the subsequent creators.  And honestly your post comes off as condescending, which as you can image, I don’t care for either.

Ou Sooner 1997 - 11 May 2009 06:17 PM

I’m totally not going to accept and I really don’t care who knows.  Nor do I care about the subsequent creators.  And honestly your post comes off as condescending, which as you can image, I don’t care for either.

I apologize if I came off as condescending.  I was only trying to inject a little rationality into the debate as it was seen from someone who was a movie fan first and a Star Trek fan a distant second.  When fanboy sensibilities get hurt, reason sometimes gives way to emotion.  I know I had some very angry words to say after seeing X-Men: The Last Stand and the Wolverine film (although the former I’ve come to accept). 

Star Trek succeeded as a film period, divorced from its lineage.  Some people may not like it, but it’s considered in the non-Trek world to be a rousing success both financially, critically, and with mainstream audiences.  Some of us, on the other hand, welcome the new direction and are looking forward to more.

That wasn’t directed at you Johnny, still I’m done with it.  All good things….