5 Things Star Trek Fans Must Admit About The Film Franchise

[dub]

Don't agree with all of it, but interesting read:

http://www.cracked.com/blog/why-star-trek-reboot-hates-idea-being-star-trek/

 

[Amaris]

I found it to be whiny at best. I've said it before, but it's okay to dislike the films, they're not to everyone's taste. My issue is concluding that people who like the movies aren't really Star Trek fans, as the author(s) of that article claims.

 

[SalvorHardin]

It started bad

Did you enjoy that? If your answer was "OHMYGODYES!" then we're going to assume two things about you: You're not a fan of the original Star Trek...

and went all downhill from there.

 

[YellowSubmarine]

All five things that must be admitted are blatantly false.

 

[Mudd]

Useless.

 

[BillJ]

Clickbait.

 

[TheFlutteringHorde]

Heh. Cracked. All the accuracy of a ClickHole article with none of the humor.

 

[M'Sharak]

http://www.cracked.com/blog/why-star-trek-reboot-hates-idea-being-star-trek/

Eh. As is often the case with articles from Cracked, the piece isn't nearly so clever as it thinks it is. This one additionally suffers the failing of getting too many things plain wrong.

Cannot recommend.

 

[BillJ]

Guess I'm not a Star Trek fan.

Where was this guy forty-years ago? He would have saved me a heck of a lot of time and money.

 

[M'Sharak]

Guess I'm not a Star Trek fan.

Where was this guy forty-years ago? He would have saved me a heck of a lot of time and money.

He hadn't been born yet.

 

[Cinema Geekly]

Did you enjoy that? If your answer was "OHMYGODYES!" then we're going to assume two things about you: You're not a fan of the original Star Trek...

I'm actually not that big a fan. I mean I don't HATE it or anything but its right there with Enterprise for me and that's only because TOS's strongest episodes were REALLY strong. But the show was a bit before my time and A LOT of it felt dated to me in the late 80's. It also fell off a quality cliff after season 1.

Talky, technobabbly, not overly action-y, and super philosophical TNG and DS9 were my jam. The JJverse films are NOTHING like those shows further seperated from them then they are TOS and I LOVE ME SOME JJVERSE FILMS!

 

[ComicGuy89]

Repeating arguments all heard before, most of them invalid.

Sigh ... Cracked is one of the few websites that really gets on my nerves.

 

[Mudd]

You know, modern TV Trek seemed pretty dated in the 1980s. I liked that about it at the time - it was nostalgically true to the original - but I don't know that it's aged well.

 

[Franklin]

The Internet needs to hire an editor. If I want crap arguments and reasoning like that, I'll read my students' papers (JOKE! Just a joke!)

 

[shapeshifter]

Clickbait.

Cue a hundred plus pages of bait being taken.

 

[Ovation]

The Internet needs to hire an editor. If I want crap arguments and reasoning like that, I'll read my students' papers (JOKE! Just a joke!)

You and me both.

 

[DaddlerTheDalek]

Sounds like clickbait.

 

[Akiraprise]

The movies have always had a hard time exploring the "Trekky" stuff that the hard core fans like. The science, diplomacy, etc. Mostly because they've got two hours to introduce these characters, keep the masses attention while not alienating them with minutiae, tell a cool story, and get them out of the theater. Paramount, especially as of late, wants a property to compete with Star Wars. Star Trek will never be at that level. Star Trek does better on TV where it's got the time, and lower budgeting expectations, to explore it's themes.

 

[F. King Daniel]

It started bad

Did you enjoy that? If your answer was "OHMYGODYES!" then we're going to assume two things about you: You're not a fan of the original Star Trek...

and went all downhill from there.

I think he means "The Next Generation" rather than the original, which was an action-adventure show in space.

 

[RAMA]

I looked at the title and immediately knew I shouldn't bother reading it, otherwise I'd wind up banging my head against the wall, and probably put a hole in it.

RAMA