Levar Burton aka Geordi La Forge criticizes Star Trek 2009

[SalvorHardin]

Time to bump this thread. LeVar Burton has given another interview, this time calling Abrams "egocentric and immature" for violating Star Trek canon.

Read the delightfully titled "Levar Burton Calls Bullshit on JJ Abrams" here.

"I just came from a conference in San Francisco with Advanced Micro Devices, and they're working on technology towards building a holodeck."

I wish they would work faster on that.

Probably won't be this year or next, though, if I'm reading this right.

I bet that Abrams guy has something to do with this delay.
Evil progress impeding bastard

 

[M'Sharak]

"I just came from a conference in San Francisco with Advanced Micro Devices, and they're working on technology towards building a holodeck."

I wish they would work faster on that.

Probably won't be this year or next, though, if I'm reading this right.

I bet that Abrams guy has something to do with this delay.
Evil progress impeding bastard

"I would have been on Holodeck Three, if it weren't for those Bad Meddling Robots!"

 

[Sindatur]

"I just came from a conference in San Francisco with Advanced Micro Devices, and they're working on technology towards building a holodeck."

I wish they would work faster on that.

Probably won't be this year or next, though, if I'm reading this right.

I bet that Abrams guy has something to do with this delay.
Evil progress impeding bastard

JJ is an Enterprise era Vulcan?

Brings a whole new meaning to him blowing up Vulcan in the ST '09

 

[SalvorHardin]

Probably won't be this year or next, though, if I'm reading this right.

I bet that Abrams guy has something to do with this delay.
Evil progress impeding bastard

JJ is an Enterprise era Vulcan?

Why do you think he erased everything except Enterprise from our beloved canon?

 

[Cyrus]

I can't find reruns of TNG on TV. Those bastards!!!, they did erase it.

 

[CaptainMurdock]

Hey, ST Generations vanished from my Video shelf. This is the greatest day of my life!

 

[The Castellan]

Well, with Levar and JJ, there's only one of them I like.

And it's funny how some fans are okay when Levar slammed Insurrection and Nemesis, but get annoyed when slamming JJ. Don't see what makes JJ untouchable.

 

[yousirname]

And it's funny how some fans are okay when Levar slammed Insurrection and Nemesis, but get annoyed when slamming JJ. Don't see what makes JJ untouchable.

He's not, and no-one is saying or implying that he is. Burton is right when he says Insurrection and Nemesis are weak films. He's talking nonsense when he says TNG is 'negated' by ST09. It's not complicated.

 

[Franklin]

Well, with Levar and JJ, there's only one of them I like.

And it's funny how some fans are okay when Levar slammed Insurrection and Nemesis, but get annoyed when slamming JJ. Don't see what makes JJ untouchable.

I don't think anyone's saying he isn't entitled to be critical of Abrams or ST09. But this particular criticism just isn't valid. He keeps talking as if Abrams made TNG go away. He didn't.

To tell the gospel truth, when or if the time is ever ripe and TOS-Trek takes off as a movie franchise (maybe even with recasted characters), who's to say a new Trek TV show couldn't be a reboot of TNG? I'd be down with that. In my opinion, it'd be a better idea than yet another "new" (but really derivative) version of Trek joining the franchise.

 

[thumbtack]

He only means that his opportunity to make pointless guest appearances contacting Janeway (I mean nuKirk) has been negated, not the whole of TNG.

 

[Devon]

At the very least, Abrams never made up stories and then used that to slam people in the press. Abrams got you beat once again Geordi....

 

[The Castellan]

Well, with Levar and JJ, there's only one of them I like.

And it's funny how some fans are okay when Levar slammed Insurrection and Nemesis, but get annoyed when slamming JJ. Don't see what makes JJ untouchable.

I don't think anyone's saying he isn't entitled to be critical of Abrams or ST09. But this particular criticism just isn't valid. He keeps talking as if Abrams made TNG go away. He didn't.

To tell the gospel truth, when or if the time is ever ripe and TOS-Trek takes off as a movie franchise (maybe even with recasted characters), who's to say a new Trek TV show couldn't be a reboot of TNG? I'd be down with that. In my opinion, it'd be a better idea than yet another "new" (but really derivative) version of Trek joining the franchise.

The idea of rebooting TNG makes me shudder.....just make a new series, and stop rehashing stuff over and over and over. And people ask me why I stopped watching mainstream TV or go to the films anymore since it's all nothing but remake, remake, remake. I can just picture whatever hack they hire to make it hire someone like Vin Diesel as Picard or Colin Ferrel as Riker......~shudders~

 

[CaptainMurdock]

How about a pre reboot USS Kelvin series? that crew looked like they had awesome adventures.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Burton doesn't really appear to know what he's talking about.

 

[FreddyE]

If I remember right it´s not the first time Burton says BS like that.

 

[{ Emilia }]

Hey, ST Generations vanished from my Video shelf. This is the greatest day of my life!

Generations was better than JJTrek.

So was Insurrection.

There, I said it.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Generations was better than JJTrek.

So was Insurrection.

There, I said it.

 

[{ Emilia }]

Generations was better than JJTrek.

So was Insurrection.

There, I said it.

Yes.

Star Trek: Minute by Minute review. Oh, teh suck.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Wow, that someone would waste hours and hours writing that is pretty pathetic.

 

[{ Emilia }]

Wow, that someone would waste hours and hours writing that is pretty pathetic.

You only say that because you didn't read it.
I hope he'll write another for the next Trek movie. It was so amusing.