Then I went to work the next day and one of the newscaster was talking to the weather girl and he was talking about how ST:XI was a pox in the Star Trek legacy like VOY, DS9, and ENT were.
What an idiot. These people who wanted nothing but 20 more seasons of TNG..
I have an oft-repeated theory about that mentality (and I have met many people IRL like this.) These people fell in love with a show when they were at an ideal time in their lives to do so, childhood, college whatever.. and they really got into this world. But, that time passed.. they grew out of (not up, sideways, lol) that kind of love, the love of a fictional world. They are no longer capable of having that kind of relationship with fiction, though they retain all their affections for the series they did fall in love with. However instead of seeing fictional worlds as an interest of their past they feel they have to trash every single series that follows their love because the new ones do not make them feel the same way as the one they liked did. I've noticed these people are usually not sci fi fans, they are not falling for Stargate or Firefly or anything else either.
Truer words were never written. It's true for music, games, whatever. We all have nostalgia for stuff in our past.
It's the same reason people piss all over Bieber. News flash: Hanson was really no better, and everyone whined about them, too. Humans plain old have a hard time embracing new things.
All the post-1987 Treks found some kind of audience.
Teacake, Froot - y'all are both very insightful.
AND!
I have already planned a special birthday tribute to the Captain! I hope that the other Denizens of the Compound are going to join me in making the occasion a festive one.
