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Are NuTrek fans more likely to like Enterprise?

Are NuTrek fans more likely to like Enterprise?

  • Yes

    Votes: 9 39.1%

  • No

    Votes: 14 60.9%
  • Total voters
    23
eyeresist

eyeresist

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This is something I'm curious about: looking back, the TV series Enterprise falls on the fence between TNG and NuTrek, being episodic and somewhat concerned with moral lessons, but also more concerned with a realistic look (less stylised, more high-budget) and a bit of swashbuckling in space. Does this mean people who like the Abrams films are more likely to like ENT than people who don't like the Abrams films?

EDIT: I added this clarification in a later post:
I guess part of the reason I've asked this question is thinking about young viewers (e.g. my nephews) whose first acquaintance with Star Trek is the new movies. I have a feeling that TV shows from the 80s or the 60s will seem stiff and slow to them, but ENT, being the most modern series in look and attitude, might serve as a "gateway drug".
 
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I have no idea. I'm an ancient TOS fan who likes both Enterprise and nuTrek.
 
Ah, but I'm an ENT fan who is a bit iffy about the new movies. I guess part of the reason I've asked this question is thinking about young viewers (e.g. my nephews) whose first acquaintance with Star Trek is the new movies. I have a feeling that TV shows from the 80s or the 60s will seem stiff and slow to them, but ENT, being the most modern series in look and attitude, might serve as a "gateway drug".
 
If you're a little bit open minded, ENT and the reboots are more likely to appeal than if you're unable to look past a couple of discontinuities with a fanzine from the 70's, novels from the 80's or technical manuals from the 90's.
 
How many people who enjoyed the JJ movies are even aware of ENT?

How many enjoyed the movies to a point where they went ouf of their way to look into Trek on TV?

I would love to see some numbers in terms of, if you will, conversion rates there.
 
Couldn't really say for sure, I guess with anything some will, some won't. You could just as easily argue this point given the and JJ films are more actioned orientated are fans more likely to like DSN given that DSN was slighly more action orientated esp. during the later seasons.

The goal of any film or TV is to entertain, the question is to we go into movies with a different expectations from a TV show?
 
From a continuity and narrative perspective, it is perfectly plausible to regard NuTrek as a sequel to enterprise, whereas it never quite feels like a prequel to all other Trek Prime, even allowing for the radical rewriting of internal logic around time travel and parallel universes.
Oddly, it was really working well as a prequel, particularly to TMP pretty much right up until they blew Vulcan and had someone fall out of a transporter beam.

I think it really does feel as though ENT and NuTrek sit more comfortably alongside each other than they do other series, for certain.
 
The title of this thread makes me wonder if Archer's rail against a galaxy that was tougher and meaner than they - doe-eyed explorers - ever expected, for which the Vulcans pretty much said "We told you so," was actually a lament by the writers about the contemporary audience.
 
chardman said:
Loathed "Enterprise", loved TOS and both NuTrek films.
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Same here, but I can see why one would connect Enterprise to the nuTrek movies. Even if I don't like Enterprise for the most part, I appreciate that nuTrek makes a slight (definitely not overbearing) effort to connect itself to Enterprise.

My SO is somehow on a different path; nuTrek lead to TNG. I like both, but they're just so different tonally. No, I can't explain it, but hey, we got another fan, and that's fine by me! Who am I to question it?
 
I tend to prefer televised Star Trek over big screen Star Trek, regardless if the films are by JJ, Berman, Bennett, or Roddenberry.
 
Televised Star Trek does seem to allow for the most character growth, and for the exploration of subjects that just wouldn't fly well in a big screen feature, where folks pay some considerable dough to be blown away for a couple of hours. :)
 
Loved Enterprise, even though Archer was probably the worst ST Captain ever. His pacing back and forth while talking on-screen with enemies, and generally snippy attitude made me want to throw a brick at the TV at times. I was almost hoping that he'd pop out of there Quantum Leap-style when Dean Stockwell showed up.

Seriously though, I don't think Enterprise fans are more or less likely to have liked the new movies. Good writing makes and keeps fans and people are only loyal as long as what they're seeing is quality and compelling. Perhaps it's because Enterprise was the most recent ST show that many of the younger fans will remember and relate with both Enterprise and the new movies.
 
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