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The most celebrated and revered Star Trek film is one that no one wanted.
What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?
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The most celebrated and revered Star Trek film is one that no one wanted.
Hell, I'm only one fan and I want eight different things.
Star Trek needs someone with a vision beyond, “what nostalgia can we barf up on the screen this week?”
Star Trek just needs to tell good stories. That's it.
Fan service does not assure good stories.
Fan service does not assure good stories.
For all their faults between 1987 and 2005 Berman, Braga, Moore, Behr, Piller and Taylor weren't slaves to nostalgia and dialing into whatever was cool and hip in movies and television at the time. One of the best things that could have happened to Trek in this century was the success and critical praise of the 2009 film, and one of the worst things that could have happened in this century was the same.
Interesting fact. In the UK (and I suspect other nations) the officer/enlisted difference were class based. The upper classes did not want to be taking orders from the plebs so only the uppers classes were officers back in the day. The rest of the lower orders were enlisted men. Thankfully that nonsense no longer exists in RL or on Trek TV.
Shakespeare's works were not all originals
I’ve read that he might not even written a bunch of the plays that is credited to him.
Indeed - my favorite Shakespeare work, Hamlet, is an adaption of an earlier Norse legend of Amleth.
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"for the first time...without shooting back" there were quite a number of books and such with which you could have immersed beforehand
I know. But we're talking about the television series here.
One of those things that have exceedingly small reader base, and usually have never counted in the overall canon of a property. That is usually a non-starter for most folks.
I know I barely ever cared.
Just one of those things where some folks don't like spending ten hours with a book then having it upended by the next game or TV show.
I don't subscribe to that, a good story is a good story, but I can understand it is important to a lot of folks.
academics seem to like doing that
Studio heads are scared shitless of new ideas, even as the regurgitating old ideas is really starting to go flat.
No one wants to be responsible for the next Cloud Atlas., except if Cloud Atlas had made a billion dollars, then everyone would be trying to build a horrifying Cloud Atlas Cinematic Universe, including the Wachowskis.
Wall Street and the Almighty Bottom Line have perverted the aims of studios these days. I don't think there's any studio heads left that actually have production backgrounds. The folks running studios these days are all accountants who don't know the first thing about balancing art and commerce.
If teachers taught only things that everybody already knew, there wouldn't be much point to education. Would there?
which is often far different from what the fans want, sometimes including knocking out the important character and plot bits that made it successful the first time.
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