And you know happened with Star Trek over the years after TOS? It grew up. TNG included a pure blooded alien who was a primary character and DS9 gave us multiple alien characters who had many episodes dedicated to them even without the human characters. Star Trek grew from a series where humanity was the center of the galaxy to just becoming part of a much bigger and diverse galaxy where creatures that are not humans can be just as important in the grand scheme of things. Even WOMEN got to have a role more important than just being the receptionist. But with JJ's Trek, we've not only gone back to the human dominant crew, we've also gone back to a male dominant crew. Whatever alien looking crew members that are in these films will probably be lucky to have*just a split second of screen time or one word of dialogue.
What male dominant crew? Even on the bridge there were females all over the place besides Uhura. Deja vu.
I know. I don't know what would have happened had she not been there to make out with Spock in a Turbolift.
Uhura seems to have a large and important part in "Into Darkness", too. And, Carol Marcus is an important character. There were a lot of strong women characters in TOS, too. Aliens and otherwise. Lest we forget, the original First Officer of the Enterprise was cast as a woman, Number One. However, the future had to fit the present, and a woman first officer didn't fit into 1960s TV-viewing sensibilities.
Her skills as a xenolinguist, as a signals-intelligence specialist, were shown to be key to many things in the previous movie.
And Kirk never did either of those in TOS (well, not make out with Spock, anyway, but you get my point).
I don't have a problem with these early adventures in the Nuverse being Earth-centric. 'Bout time, actually.
Well, Zoe had more to do in one movie than Nichelle Nichols has in the entirety of her association with Star Trek - and if they're going to have Uhura disrobe, better she do it now than waving a bunch of fans around in the desert when she's past middle age.
I'll go along with that. A few establishing shots of San Fran would be great, but I really don't want to see the majority of the film taking place there. I wish we'd get back to 'exploring strange new worlds', but I guess that not what nuTrek is about.
It wasn't what any Trek was about, 80 percent of the time. I guess the fact that I enjoy my real life and don't feel the need to "escape from Earth" may explain some of my enthusiasm for Abrams's stuff.
I do. Seriously, I really do. I want to see what normal life is like in the Utopia without the confines of a starship. They probably won't even show what I really want to see anyway. Stuff like what a citizen that doesn't work for Starfleet does for work. What someone does for transportation(I always wondered if transporters were common). Or what someone does for entertainment.
I enjoy my real life just fine; I'd just like to see Trek on the screen that felt a bit more like the source material.
I like it, if it's done right. I want to see Earth displayed as a paradise and something that we should strive for, like it was in the TV show.
Well, this feels a lot more like TOS than anything else Paramount's done for thirty years or so. So it's good.