I couldn't agree more with that sentiment! I just come to a different conclusion from there.
I think the JJverse would be the more problematic. Because a new show would probably be set at the same time around like the movies. So in any potential appereance of the Ferengi, the writers would have to explain why there already is contact with the Ferengi in this universe. Which means they would run into continuity problems again. And fan outrage. Again. For either explaining too little ("They just don't mentioned their names? Again?") or explaining too much ("Seriously, who needs alternate timeline history lessons, anyone?")
Setting the show in a (hypothetical broad strokes) prime universe, Ferengi could just randomly appear, and the writers can go on with their story from there.
The possibility of both the JJverse or something completely new allow for new continuity to be created. Once Nero came back in time, everything changed. Nothing was sacred. And that's what I see in most fans who are asking for a return to Prime. They can't accept that things changed. I'm not saying you,
Rahul, as you seem a little more down to earth than most, but many will be so adamantly against any kind of reboot. They want a series that continues in real time from the end of Voyager and picks up all of the loose threads. I think that kind of storytelling is restrictive. And I don't want to see what happens to Picard, Riker, Worf, Kira, O'Brien, Odo, Janeway, Chakotay and the Doctor.
Why?
Because their stories have been told. I don't want to know how they died. I don't want to see any future stories because they're irrelevant and damned near masturbatory at this point. The writers told the stories they wanted to tell and now I want to be able to use my imagination in order to continue the story.
"But you can set it in a broad future 500 years down the line?"
No. You can't. Because the moment you do that, then from here you extrapolate the technology and it could easily answer every single problem. You think transwarp beaming is a problem now? Oy.
I want stories about people and using the human element in order to fix a problem. From 1987 until about 1998, I loved all things Star Trek and I thought it could do no wrong. Now, as a 35 year old man, I see a lot of problems in the storytelling. How tech solved so much in the spinoffs and how there is an almost unbelievable amount of perfection in these characters. I've come to appreciate TOS far more than I did growing up. Because at the end of the day, Kirk, Spock and McCoy were imperfect persons.
I want characters who are flawed but are trying to be as perfect as they can be. I want characters who, on occasion, fail. I don't want technology to be the solution to everything because it isn't now nor will it ever be. And I'm afraid any return to the Prime Universe will give me the exact opposite of that.
That's why I find any return to the Primeverse restrictive. That's why I don't want it.
End of rant.
). That kind of thing. If they have a good story involving the Ferengi, then, dammit, let the writers use them! But if it involves the Federation meeting them before 2364, then I don't want fans to flip out about it.
