Mourning Trek

[plynch]

It doesn't look to be to my tastes, but I don't like much. That sounds grumpy, but it's just true, there is one series I watch (Better Call Saul) and rarely go to the movies. I don't like pew-pew action. I'll definitely give it a try, but I am not in the camp where anything with a Star Trek nameplate gets my eyes. ENT lost me for the opposite reason, in its first season: dullsville. But as to the OP, yeah, the style/vibe you like is gone. I am glad for my TOS old-FX clamshell-case DVDs. And I am rationing out to myself the Star Trek Continues episodes. They are better than half the original eps. But to those, who like the new JJ/DSC style: congrats and enjoy.

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

NuTrek has substantially lowered my expectations of Trekdom so will watch the pilot for sure. Hope for the best (it's at least watchable as a run-of-the-mill sci-fi show) but prepare for the worst (STID), but really don't see it fitting in with what Trek is to me.

 

[Lynx]

Yep. Had the same type of feeling when TNG started. But the nice thing is they will always have the old stuff out there. Hopefully DSC will strike a chord with you. You never know.

And there are always the fan sites doing "classic " Trek.

I've seen som trailers for DSC and they hasn't encouraged me to watch the series.
The whole design is typical doom-and-gloom 21th century SF. Not at all something from the TOS-era.
Not to mention the Klingons!
What I saw wasn't Klingons but evil Ninja Turtles!
Must every new crazy producer mess upp everything?
If I had doubts before, I have it even more now.

King Daniel Beyond wrote:

Season change, time passes by, and the weeks become the months become the years.

Maybe The Orville is for you? It's supposed to be a lot more TNG-like than the trailers suggest.

Hmmm......I don't know. A bit like watching beer mixed with water when I can have the real thing=TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY.

In that case, fan productions seems more interesting.

 

[Nerys Myk]

The whole design is typical doom-and-gloom 21th century SF.

Really? What's "doom and gloom" about the designs? The Discovery it's self is based on a design from the 70's!

 

[Trekfan12]

That is what I like about Star Trek, the diversity. So many different shows based on the concepts created 50 years ago. I am not in mourning, I can always watch TOS as much as I want. And I also like watching TNG, DS9, VOY (just can't get into ENT) as much as I want. Heroes and Icons airs it 6 days a week. So It's never really gone off the air, entirely. I am looking forward to the new series.

 

[Lynx]

Really? What's "doom and gloom" about the designs? The Discovery it's self is based on a design from the 70's!

It's not the ship itself. The whole layout in the different scenes looks like something out of some doom-and-gloom movie from the recent years. I see no resemblance at all to TOS anywhere.
And the Klingons still looks like evil Ninja Turtles who had been better suited for a 24th century series with a new enemy from the Andromeda Galaxy or so.

 

[DimesDan]

I sometimes like watching Trek in the morning, as for actually mourning it, nope, not at all, I cannot wait for Discovery to begin on Netflix at the end of the month.

 

[F. King Daniel]

This thread: Mourning Trek
Me: Morning, Trek

Dammit, @Dimesdan ninja'd me on the mourning/morning gag by 8 whole minutes.

 

[Tim Thomason]

Star Trek is dead. Long live, Star Trek!

 

[F. King Daniel]

 

[Tim Thomason]

Star Trek has been going downhill ever since The Alternative Factor aired. That wasn't my Star Trek!

 

[Lynx]

You forgot the Ninja Turtles!

 

[Balok's Decoy]

I'm reminded of McCoy's words about Spock at the end of WOK: "He's really not dead. As long as we remember him." Your TOS and TNG dvds ain't goin nowhere. Nothing's died because something new is happening.

 

[Hey Missy]

Spoiler

Not directed at anyone in this thread, but is it me or is there a tendency now to shit on anything post-TOS? I often see life-long fans claiming that [ST09/STID/STB/DSC] are the best things to come out since [1969/1979/1982/pick your year] and makes me wonder if they were a fan for so long, why they hate the majority of what Star Trek has put out. And they've been very vocal about this since they blame the TNG era for "killing the franchise", a kind of misdirected rage at the shows instead of the producers.

 

[Sophie74656]

I started mourning Star Trek in 2009 when the first JJ movie came out

 

[CorporalCaptain]

I love the smell of Star Trek in the morning.

 

[uniderth]

Your TOS and TNG dvds ain't goin nowhere. Nothing's died because something new is happening.

But the problem isn't that Classic Trek would become unavailable. The problem is wading through all the new BS on Memory Alpha, forums, and the like. It really kills discussion when people say, "Yeah, but on Enterprise...blah ...blah...blah..." Then the whole thread get derailed into an argument about what is and isn't canon.

 

[Kor]

I see no reason to mourn over my preferred version of Trek if a spinoff doesn't fit that mold.

My blu-rays are alive and well, and they aren't going anywhere. So there's nothing to mourn.

Kor

 

[Balok's Decoy]

This is my favorite post. Well done. Well done indeed.

 

[Greg Cox]

But the problem isn't that Classic Trek would become unavailable. The problem is wading through all the new BS on Memory Alpha, forums, and the like. It really kills discussion when people say, "Yeah, but on Enterprise...blah ...blah...blah..." Then the whole thread get derailed into an argument about what is and isn't canon.

On the other hand, at least we'll have something new to talk about instead of dissecting the same episodes for the umpteenth time.

"But why didn't they use the shuttle in 'The Enemy Within'?"