Is it time to put Star Trek to rest?

[mb22]

Doesn't look like it will resting anytime soon...

https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/treks-future-according-to-paramounts-new-owners.319899/

 

[kkt]

The writers were preoccupied with answering the question, "How do we fill our order of 26 episodes?"



There is good and bad in every era (The 60s had hippies, the Summer of Love, the Watts Riots, and the Manson Family murders all within the same decade! )

There was violence even in the 60s. The violence in The Wild Bunch (1969) and Bonnie and Clyde (1967) was shocking for its day.

The 60s had more violence than that!

The assassinations - JFK, Robert Kennedy, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King.

Escalation of United States' role in Vietnam from writing checks, sending weapons, to training troops how to use them to doing the fighting with large numbers of our own troops, with ever-escalating hopeless increases in troop numbers needed.

The My Lai Massacre, in which we were not on the side of the good guys, and only one low-level officer was ever punished.

Political interference in the 1968 election.

 

[CaptainVarley]

Is it time to put Star Trek to rest?

No.

And I bet you could find people asking the same thing in 1987, 1993, 1995, possibly 1979 and 1982. Maybe not 1968 because they were trying too hard to keep Star Trek from being put to rest.

A Star Trek fan's worst fear: That Star Trek people will make total crap and it will be a hit. And then the fan has to put up with other fans who just don't GET. IT.

(See also: Menace, The Phantom.)

Gen Zers really gas up Phantom Menace too much. It's solid, but doesn't hold a candle to Empire or Return of the Jedi.

I agree with you Star Trek comment. Different eras have their own vibes and older fans aren't always on board. I think this era has some of the weakest seasons of Trek ever, Picard S2, and DIS had some ROUGH stretches (I still haven't watched S4 or 5 of DIS after how S3 ended) but that doesn't over shadow the different demo target shows and the variety we have gotten.

I think they made the right decision to dial down the level of Trek so as to not water the brand down. There was too much, and Kurtzman doesn't get why Star Trek has appealed to people for decades. Too many misses that have turned off too many old fans when they haven't brought in enough new fans.