While Prelude might not have the same impact on new viewers today, it's important to remember that back in 2014 there was no official Star Trek being released except the JJ movies which (being new) drew criticism from a vocal segment of the fanbase.
Right. Thank you for reminding me of the "The IP owners weren't doing anything with it!" lament. Frankly, I would have preferred the IP holders sit on it in perpetuity than have them dole out the schlock we're getting. I liked the old series enough to just keep rewatching them. I certainly didn't need Prelude and Axanar to feed my new trek addiction. (And if I did need fanfilms for that, there were plenty of others to watch in 2014. Completed ones.)
Prelude showed us TOS uniforms, classic ship designs, legacy actors and other trappings of "proper" Star Trek.
Yes, trappings, as I said earlier. Trappings of Star Trek laid over a humdrum, uncharacteristic narrative.
BTW,
Ares is not a "classic" ship design. It's an Amalgam of TOS, TMP and TNG-movie design philosophies with an idiot dressed like Garth of Izar in the Captain's Chair.
And the production values were amazing.
It's not valuable if the visuals and script detract from the overall
entertainment value, which they do.
But most importantly of course, Prelude was designed as an extended trailer for the full movie. By only hinting of what was to come, it allowed people to build up the movie in their minds to be as awesome as they wanted it to be - and Prelude was a part of that mental process, hence the nostalgia for it held by many still today.
Which brings me back to my original quandry, because the only thing this "trailer" did for me was give me twenty minutes of something I didn't want to see any more of, and again, the fact that other people were willing to pay for more of it has always stunned me.
As a film on its own, Prelude is a bunch of talking heads with high production values which point towards a film that never came out (and never will). Effectively, it's an empty promise and without that essential follow-up, I can understand why new viewers don't immediately leap on board declaring it to be "the best Trek ever!!!"
I'm not that new a viewer. There wasn't any new TV trek (yet) when I first saw it, and I still didn't immediately leap on board and declare it the best Trek ever, because that's patent nonsense.
And besides, now we have Trek back on TV again
So I have an idea where you lay your car freshener...
A format that Trek hadn't really tackled before, the faux documentary.
Just because it had never been tried before doesn't make it good. The Ford Edsel, Tucker Torpedo and DeLorean were all developed from car concepts that had never been tried before.
Star Trek, even at its best, simply isn't as engaging as a real conflict, where real lives are/were at stake. It is an inherent limit to entertainment.
True, but any creators who include battles in their films and television shows always strive to surpass that limitation, because the closer they get to succeeding, the more entertaining the production becomes. Prelude made a half-assed attempt at it, giving us deadpan script deliveries and underwhelming combat visuals.
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FYI - Due to the Settlement Agreement he has with CBS/Paramount; he'd have no standing in court to be able to even bring such a lawsuit if others made use of any of his Axanar lore. (CBS itself could sue away - but yeah, Peters can't).
All peter's current lawsuits (and lawsuit threats) have been either:
- Defamation...
- Defendant cheated me out of funds from a transaction...
- I loaned Defendant money/Paid Defendant as a work for hire and was never re-paid/Defended never did the work I asked for but still took the payment...
He's NEVER sued for "Hey 'Axanar' is my copywritten IP separate from the actual 'Star Trek' IP..." because again, he has zero standing to make such a legal claim based on the CBS settlement; and could be found in 'Breach of Settlement' or sued again by CBS if they (CBS) were so inclined.
Thank you for that information.
