Just Say No To JJ Abrams

[tldenson]

[FONT=Times New Roman]I’ve been a Star Trek fan since I was a boy. Growing up, we moved around a lot and sometimes there was no heat or water in the house. My parents rarely got along. However, on Saturday at 6 p.m. no matter how bad the family strife, everything stopped when Star Trek: The Next Generation came on. It was one of the few things that brought my dysfunctional family together, even if it was for only an hour a week. The main things that I took away from Star Trek were one, that the future could always be better and second, that all people can come together for the betterment of humanity. As a teacher that is part of the message that I tell my students. [/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman]It is also the message that many fans took away from Star Trek. Fans that for 40 years have made 4 TV Series and 10 movies financially successful. Fans that wrote letters, spent millions of dollars on merchandise, and kept it alive by creating shows in their garages and basements. Fans young and old, from across the world have been inspired by Star Trek. Fans that have bought into an established cannon, even as ridiculous as it sounds, makes the show more real for them and reinforces the original message of Star Trek.[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman]The people that have been involved in creating Star Trek over the years have love and affection for the show. Not all the series have been great, not all the actors have been good, and some of the stories were just bad. Star Trek has deserved the ridicule receives. There is not argument that Star Trek needs fresh blood. However, that does not mean that you take 40 years of tradition and cannon accepted by Trek fans and through it out. What if you did that with Star Wars, The Matrix, Harry Potter, or The Lord of the Rings? Studios seem to think that if you get some sexy actors and blow something up, you have a great movie. Paramount doesn’t understand that if you mess up something that is literally an American Icon, people will be turned off by it and take their money with them.[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman]The trailer and screen shots show this movie disrespects the cannon that is created and cherished by fans. This movie like those TV series that have been made into movies like The Brady Bunch, The Beverly Hill Billy’s, Bewitched, Starsky and Hutch, and the Dukes of Hazzard. Those movies mocked the original series and that is what this new Trek is doing. It does not matter which actor you bring out of moth balls to say how great it is, anyone will say anything if they get paid enough.[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman]Star Trek is about going forward and faltered when it began the Lucas style prequels. Take Star Trek forward. Go after the Next Generation Era. Make made for TV movies that tell us what happened to our Trek Characters. Take some of these fan based movies and remake them into televised movies. It is a strategy that worked for Star Gate and Babylon 5. Let’s do this for Star Trek. This is what the die hard fans have wanted, Paramount and CBS should do this. In doing so bring in new talent but bring in the people, actors and writers, who understand it and let it go forward. If you show it one the right networks and make it really good, Star Trek at its best, you will bring in new fans. I was 7 when TNG premiered, I just turned 29. I was born in 1979, thirteen years after Star Trek TOS. If I could become a new fan, anyone can.[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman]I am calling on all fans of Star Trek to boycott the new Trek movie and begin a letter writing campaign as never before to get Trek back on track. If not, just let it die.[/FONT]
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[JoeZhang]

I have already said YES to Mr. Abrams.

Take some of these fan based movies and remake them into televised movies. It is a strategy that worked for Star Gate and Babylon 5.

huh?

 

[shapeshifter]

OP: No.

 

[Vonstadt]

I am calling on all fans of Star Trek to boycott the new Trek movie and begin a letter writing campaign as never before to get Trek back on track. If not, just let it die.

Isn't this a tad like cutting off one's nose to spite one's face?

I say give the new film a CHANCE, and then cry for blood if there is some kind of horror inflicted upon us by good old JJ.

This is hardly the Pre-Crime Division, it's not as if we know for sure a crime is about to be commited so let's not pounce shall we??

 

[T J]

I choose to say no to just you.

 

[RoJoHen]

You know, I despise the term "canon," but I despise it even more when it is misspelled.

 

[Good Will Riker]

I say do not judge until you watch.

Making decisions based solely on casual observations is generally not a reliable thing.

 

[dave_R_treker]

I am calling on all fans of Star Trek to boycott the new Trek movie and begin a letter writing campaign as never before to get Trek back on track. If not, just let it die.

Isn't this a tad like cutting off one's nose to spite one's face?

I say give the new film a CHANCE, and then cry for blood if there is some kind of horror inflicted upon us by good old JJ.

This is hardly the Pre-Crime Division, it's not as if we know for sure a crime is about to be commited so let's not pounce shall we??

I agree with you, give the film a chance. I am skeptic about this new movie. I will go see it. I hope that it turns out better then I have imagined.
I know there are alot of people out there that hated Enterprise, but I really thought it was a good show. Before Enterprise aired I was skeptic about it, but it was actually good.

 

[JuanBolio]

Did you copy and paste that all by yourself?

 

[msbae]

Not only do I refuse to boycott this film, I refuse to read the Opening Post as well. I'm not going to try to sift through all that bad formatting, mister.

 

[Kryton]

TLDR.

I think it broke my eyes.

 

[Vance]

I have already said YES to Mr. Abrams.

And was it good for you? Did he spring for dinner first? :P

 

[TOSTNGDS9VOYENT]

I must concur with my colleagues! This is no reason to dis a movie you haven't seen yet. Regardless of whether its good or not, the movies been made. It makes no difference now! They spent $150 million on this film, and they wrote it so that it will appeal to the masses. No letter writing campaign is gonna change that. And I seriously doubt they'd call Berman up and say, "Lets give it another shot"! I'm a very open-minded person and am quite willing to accept a reboot. And although I have many opinions regarding points that might or might not make any sense in a movie or series, I don't pick apart canon, because even what was canon thirty years ago, isn't now. Too many series have mutilated it over the years. This movie will be a starting point. Everything that happens is the new canon. A lot of the old canon was based on conjecture or something somebody made up to explain something, and not something that was shown on screen very often. So if the movie shows it, thats how it happened, and you can pick apart all it sequels to your hearts content if they contradict one another. But for now, I'm content!

 

[SalvorHardin]

Fix that thing tldenson so that it does not cause headaches and I might even read it...

 

[Vance]

I must concur with my colleagues! This is no reason to dis a movie you haven't seen yet.

There's a huge logical flaw to your statement, and one I see 'fanbois' make constantly. "You can't judge if you're going to see this film until you see it!"

Erm, why should I pay to see a movie that it doesn't look like I'll like, just to see if I really wouldn't like it?

 

[Blue_Ranger]

I must concur with my colleagues! This is no reason to dis a movie you haven't seen yet.

There's a huge logical flaw to your statement, and one I see 'fanbois' make constantly. "You can't judge if you're going to see this film until you see it!"

Erm, why should I pay to see a movie that it doesn't look like I'll like, just to see if I really wouldn't like it?

Then don't watch it. Why must each of you create a thread to explain why you won't see it?

 

[Temis the Vorta]

I make it a point of honor to disagree with all posts that have formatting commands scattered in absurd fashion throughout the text.

 

[Vance]

Then don't watch it. Why must each of you create a thread to explain why you won't see it?

I don't know.. why do you guys create duplicate threads to celebrate the movie, and then go start flame wars against the first batch of people? Seems like more troubled behaviour to me, really. :P

In my case, it's Star Trek, and I'm a Star Trek fan. That means that the first order of business is to bitch.

 

[RoJoHen]

I must concur with my colleagues! This is no reason to dis a movie you haven't seen yet.

There's a huge logical flaw to your statement, and one I see 'fanbois' make constantly. "You can't judge if you're going to see this film until you see it!"

Erm, why should I pay to see a movie that it doesn't look like I'll like, just to see if I really wouldn't like it?

Well, this also seems to be a big mistake that the crazy Trek fans make. There is a big difference between:

1) "This movie doesn't look good, so I'm not going to see it."

...and...

2) "I haven't seen this movie, but I know it sucks!"

I'm fine if you don't want to see the movie because you don't think you'll like it, but that does not mean that the movie is actually bad. This is true of all movies, not just Trek.

 

[Vance]

I'm fine if you don't want to see the movie because you don't think you'll like it, but that does not mean that the movie is actually bad. This is true of all movies, not just Trek.

Heh. Well, like I explained in another thread, everything that I've seen of this movie so far seems to indicate a very Sci-Fi channel-like grade C production with a huge-ass budget and a bizzare and fanatical hype machine behind it. I, personally, as a movie fan, haven't actually seen any element that I've LIKED about it. I've gone from 'meh' to wincing at parts. More on the wincing.