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15 Reasons JJ "Ruined & Destroyed" Star Trek

It get's pretty violent.

Can I get the address of this lab please?
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Washington, D.C. Earth.

Mr. B. Clinton.

Apr. 14, 1996

Bring binders.
unless you can find some story-related Trek connection, I'd really prefer that politics be kept out of this forum, thanks - especially anything remotely related to the US presidential election. Even if you're only joking around, someone may find a way to take offense, and anyway, there are other forums better suited to political topics.
 
Can I get the address of this lab please?
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Washington, D.C. Earth.

Mr. B. Clinton.

Apr. 14, 1996

Bring binders.
unless you can find some story-related Trek connection, I'd really prefer that politics be kept out of this forum, thanks - especially anything remotely related to the US presidential election. Even if you're only joking around, someone may find a way to take offense, and anyway, there are other forums better suited to political topics.
Okay, but it was too easy and ya gotta admit, it was kinda funny.
 
I don't know what kind of Trekkies you hang out with, but in my social circles we bitch about this sort of thing and accuse it of ruining Trek's purity of spirit.


Mostly, I choose to hang with fans who have a positive outlook like my own, and we manage to enjoy most of what we see. If it's bad (eg. ST V) we see it a few times and have a laugh, and if it's good we see it lots.

That's a great way to approach it.

I recall watching the premiere of Insurrection at Crown Casino, in a cinema full of fans. We laughed and cheered throughout and gave it a round of applause at the end, and I went home feeling great about it. I went online the next day, read through the waves of negativity and didn't feel like sharing my experience at all.

It's such a different experience sharing it with the right people. I am going through Voyager with my girlfriend, who's quickly becoming a Trek convert. We watched Threshold last night, and a part of my mind braced for the howls of outrage at the abomination that ruined Star Trek forever. The verdict: "That was fun! Silly, but fun."

Give me a shared experience with a like-minded person than a forum discussion any day.
 
The Abomination not only ruined and destroyed Star Trek, but it may well have signaled the death knell for Western Civilization as we know it--and could even pose a threat to the continued existence of sentience in the observable universe.
YMMV
 
I only went down to about number 11 and got bored with the same old nitpicks. These issues have been debated ad nauseum.

Yes, I get a distinct "been there, done that" feeling...besides, you might dislike a film for these above reasons, but to claim that they have destroyed the franchise isn't just a stretch beyond the known realms of pedantic nitpickers, it's simply not true. ST 09 has revived the franchise, even if for a new movie series.
 
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