I've seen a lot of comments like this and all it makes me think is that apparently IDIC does not extend to the creation of Star Trek stories. It's sad, really. If someone doesn't want to see it, they don't have to. If they see it and don't like it, that's their right. It seems only reasonable and, dare I say, logical to hold judgment until it is done. But to pre-judge and hope that someone's imagination and creativity does not come to fruition? Yikes.
Wasn't IDIC talking about the existence individual beings and treating them decently and appropriately, not formats and standards or "Bibles" that make a franchise its own unique self and not any other franchise or, worse, any generic blob of television?
In other words, I opine there could be a contextual difference.
And, yes, Trek has taken many forms. Most forms of which still feel like genuine Star Trek at their core.
And, yes, it is possible for the same set of producers and showmakers to have the magic touch for one series but then trying to make others and it's (not good). Look at what happened to the X-Men movie series. The first was okay, the second was perfect.The third had the cast and a great potential with plot items but the new people making it didn't understand the traditional format Singer brought in, neither did they reinvent it to make it as strong but still feeling relevant to the franchise as a whole. The series never recovered, even Days of Future's Past felt like 2 hours of fanservice and trying to use the time travel cliche to change history to pretend X3 didn't exist and unlike other franchises, at least X3's characters didn't feel apocryphal to how they were built up - or any that U can remember right now.
But it's not like X-Men had its own commandment that is analogous to IDIC... or prequels, since most of those screw up more than what they try to piece in but that doesn't mean it's impossible to do. Usually what becomes a prequel isn't strong enough on its own, hence those series starting long after the events prequels fumble in explaining took place.
Tangential, partially, those X-Men movies clearly had formats from script to direction that made sure it felt like what one expects from an X-Men movie franchise. Change any aspect around too much, without any confidence or verve, and the audience might be alienated.
If we take IDIC at its face value, I then propose a dare. One that IDIC's current proponents might end up rethinking their support of, not that it's difficult to come up with examples so absurd...
Or, to turn a really long post into a teensy yet far
more boring one one, if we take IDIC at its face value, that means we have to accept those who don't like all variations of Star Trek along with every other combination. QED.
