Levar Burton aka Geordi La Forge criticizes Star Trek 2009

Discussion in 'Star Trek Movies: Kelvin Universe' started by serenitytrek1, Feb 22, 2013.

  1. DalekJim

    DalekJim Fleet Captain Fleet Captain

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    My favourite TOS episode is This Side of Paradise and it's hardly realistic. Still, I am more forgiving if an episode is more conceptual or ambitious than if it coasts along a generic formula. Most of my favourite Trek episodes (Such as In The Pale Moonlight, The Inner Light, The Visitor and City on the Edge of Forever) push the format in some way. I don't feel Abrams is doing this so it feels like the franchise is in a rut and to get out of it, I feel it must return to television.

    The novel range seems to be doing quite well though.
     
  2. BillJ

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    I think it's fairer to say Abrams isn't doing it yet. We honestly don't know what the future holds in regards to Star Trek Into Darkness (I haven't seen it yet and refuse to damn it with praise or ridicule until I have) and the inevitable Star Trek 2016.

    But even if he does go down the more philosophical route, it will still be more in the background as his job is to sell movie tickets first and foremost.
     
  3. Franklin

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    Which brings up another point. Not only have we all probably watched a shitload of good and bad Trek, as you pointed out, BillJ, but we've watched a lot more Trek than anyone probably intended to be watched. The TV episodes, even movies, were not written to be pieces that would be watched over and over and picked apart ten, twenty, or even fifty years later. (Fifty years. Yikes!) Not even Shakespeare was writing thinking his works would be scrutinized over four hundred years after they were written. He was entertaining people in the moment.

    Very few popular culture TV shows and movies stand the test of time or heavy and repeated scrutiny. Considering they're all shot with finite budgets, deadlines to meet, egos to massage, profitability in mind, and other things that can affect "artistic quality," it's a wonder they can stand up to even one viewing.
     
  4. BillJ

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    Hell, I watched Obsession today and they left an impulse vent open because they didn't think it was important when battling a fog creature. :guffaw:
     
  5. yousirname

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    It is... aggressive. Adversarial.


    I hate it here!


    Then why do you exist here?


    :D

    Seriously, the person going into the forum for discussing the Trek movies from ST09 onwards with the sole intent of bashing them is not being 'followed around' when other people in the forum respond to their posts.
     
  6. Admiral Buzzkill

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    Why would anyone "heckle" him for not liking Abrams's Trek movie? He loved it:

     
  7. DalekJim

    DalekJim Fleet Captain Fleet Captain

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    I'd say a lot of great shows age perfectly fine. I'm in my early 20s and watching The Avengers, Blake's 7 and I, Claudius at the moment. All of which feel very fresh.

    Of course, there are shows like TNG which feel kinda dated early on. TOS and DS9 have aged perfectly in comparison.
     
  8. yousirname

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    TOS has so not aged perfectly lol. Which is nothing against TOS at all, audiences just weren't that versed in the language of visual narrative, so you get very clunky spell-it-all-out exposition and so on (Kirk's retrospective log entry at the start of The Enemy Within being one truly glaring example). And incredibly intrusive scoring.
     
  9. M'Sharak

    M'Sharak Definitely Herbert. Maybe. Moderator

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    Seriously, though - when has Star Trek in film ever really been about those things?

    Your opinions might not be getting the reception you'd prefer, but you personally are not being spat on for anything. When you insist upon defiantly spitting into the wind, then that's all on you, as the saying goes.


    Taunting, however, as you do here:
    ... and here:
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    ... is something from which you've been asked before to refrain, so here's one last reminder to knock that off.
     
  10. The Wormhole

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    It may not be easy, but I don't think Abrams even tried to find one.
     
  11. Nerys Myk

    Nerys Myk A Spock and a smile Premium Member

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    True fact: Rachel Nichols is naturally green and uses make up in most roles to hide this.
     
  12. The Wormhole

    The Wormhole Fleet Admiral Admiral

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    ^^You'll say anything to defend Abrams!

    Ironically, I'll say anything to diss him, but that's not the point.
     
  13. Nerys Myk

    Nerys Myk A Spock and a smile Premium Member

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    Look, if you hate green people that's your problem. Just, don't try and hide it behind Abrams-bashing.
     
  14. The Wormhole

    The Wormhole Fleet Admiral Admiral

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    No! Abrams, the childhood rapist must answer for his crimes!

    I mean, I don't hate green people. In fact, I pointed out how offensive it was Abrams depicted all his green women as sluts.
     
  15. Lt. Cheka Wey

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    Nothing wrong with a healthy libido.
     
  16. Admiral Buzzkill

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    It's never really been terribly good at that on television, either - it's just a fairly smart adventure series with pretensions.
     
  17. Nerys Myk

    Nerys Myk A Spock and a smile Premium Member

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    Right. Some of your best friends are green. Typical.
     
  18. Captain McBain

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    Personally, I wouldn't be happy if I truly believed Abrams' movie literally caused Star Trek's 'classic' timeline to vanish. Yes, as some of you have pointed out, it is fiction, but still, it would annoy me. However, I'm pretty sure that the timeline is simply an alternate reality, such as the various alternate realities/universes seen in the TNG episode, "Parallels."
     
  19. Opus

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    NOT TRUE.

    Everyone knows all green women are named Kelly...
     
  20. Nerys Myk

    Nerys Myk A Spock and a smile Premium Member

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    And their last name is O'Ryan.