I wrote this in an email to a long-time non-Trek-watching friend today:
Remember the tv show Friends? It was extremely popular, but the spin-off, Joey, didn't do so well. Just for giggles, let's add the idea that another spin-off was done, and that tanked, too.
There's a bunch of people who would like more Friends, but what they really want isn't another spin-off, it's the feeling the original show gave them back when no one knew whether Ross and Rachel would ever end up together or not.
Okay, imagine that someone found a bunch of actors that looked like Rachel, Ross, Phoebe, etc the way they looked in the first few seasons. Then they started a new tv series, but started from right before Ross and Rachel admitted how they felt about each other. And then, they blew up the apartment building they all lived in through the whole original series, while they were all at work one day.
You'd have long-time Friends fans bitching that they just threw all of the later seasons of the original show in the trash, and that the new apartment building they all moved to in the new show just isn't the same. But, if you worked it right, you'd have a show that's watchable, and you wouldn't necessarily know what's going to come next, because the situation is different.
THAT is what this movie was for Trek. And they had to, because without it or something like it, with the way they screwed up the last two series, Trek was going to be dead, anyway.
Remember the tv show Friends? It was extremely popular, but the spin-off, Joey, didn't do so well. Just for giggles, let's add the idea that another spin-off was done, and that tanked, too.
There's a bunch of people who would like more Friends, but what they really want isn't another spin-off, it's the feeling the original show gave them back when no one knew whether Ross and Rachel would ever end up together or not.
Okay, imagine that someone found a bunch of actors that looked like Rachel, Ross, Phoebe, etc the way they looked in the first few seasons. Then they started a new tv series, but started from right before Ross and Rachel admitted how they felt about each other. And then, they blew up the apartment building they all lived in through the whole original series, while they were all at work one day.
You'd have long-time Friends fans bitching that they just threw all of the later seasons of the original show in the trash, and that the new apartment building they all moved to in the new show just isn't the same. But, if you worked it right, you'd have a show that's watchable, and you wouldn't necessarily know what's going to come next, because the situation is different.
THAT is what this movie was for Trek. And they had to, because without it or something like it, with the way they screwed up the last two series, Trek was going to be dead, anyway.
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