Disagree. Another reboot would alienate people from the prime AND JJ supporters..AND confuse casual fans. Bad idea.
RAMA
RAMA
Rumor: the show takes place between TOS movies and TNG
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People aren't stupid. If they find the show entertaining, they'll watch regardless of the universe it is set in. That is only important to folks like us.
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The JJ Universe brought in lots of casual fans, the vast majority in fact...we might have 3-5 million trekkies, but STID sold over 40 million tickets. These are the people that might be confused.
Not a good comparison really. It was the same universe, same timeline, Same characters, etc. My appraisal still seems apt.
Well again, that was a whole generation before. It also never got very good ratings (lower than Enterprise even).
RAMA
We're on our third version of Spider Man starting next year, yet people are able to figure it all out. We've had multiple versions of other characters. Star Trek would be fine if the new series was a reboot.
This isn't the 60's or 80's anymore. People are use to multiple versions of the same property.
Star Trek is still a niche property. Drag a kid to see Spiderman and they won't really care which version it is. Star Trek? Not the same animal, people ignore it at will, IE: Enterprise, ST Nemesis, etc. Those did not bring in the causal viewers.
I think we overestimate how "confusing" this stuff is, even to the casual viewer. As I've written umpteen times before, reboots and remakes never confused people back in the day. Even as a kid, I understood that the various different versions of Tarzan or Zorro or Frankenstein or whatever did not take place in the same, seamless universe and I was fine with that. I didn't go nuts trying to figure out why Universal mummy movies were not consistent with the Hammer mummy movies, nor did I lose sleep worrying about whether the Gold Key comics versions of my favorite shows were "canon" or not.
At the risk of channeling my inner curmudgeon, remember when this stuff was supposed to be fun and we didn't take "timelines" and "continuity" quite so seriously?
At the risk of channeling my inner curmudgeon, remember when this stuff was supposed to be fun and we didn't take "timelines" and "continuity" quite so seriously?
That was before the time of the Great Continuity Nazi Era. 
I remember seeing X-Men in the theater with a bunch of geeks behind me saying how unlike other versions it was.
I remember seeing X-Men in the theater with a bunch of geeks behind me saying how unlike other versions it was.
So the proper formula is to place a series in the same continuity that people were already ignoring? Not sure I see the logic there?
Um no, not sure how you got that from what I said. I am saying Trek as a franchise does not have absolute support from non-Trekkies, so if they see it as suspect, are confused, or think it's too esoteric, what have you..they will stay away, as in creating a third iteration.
Contrary to what you just said, I am citing JJ Trek as just such the universe to base the new series in BECAUSE it has familiarity and support from the largest group of casual fans. The same 3-5 million Trekkies may watch it, but they'd like another 3-5 million a week to tune in!
RAMA
Contrary to what you just said, I am citing JJ Trek as just such the universe to base the new series in BECAUSE it has familiarity and support from the largest group of casual fans. The same 3-5 million Trekkies may watch it, but they'd like another 3-5 million a week to tune in!
RAMA
Well, I'm not naming names! And, I'm not opposed to someone thinking that the new series would likely be set in the JJverse. It's the blowhards who knew for sure and were out to inform everyone of the absurdity of believing otherwise.
At any rate, I'm not too bothered by which universe it is set in from a story telling standpoint. But, if it was the Prime universe I would get a bit of satisfaction from that!
Mr Awe
If you say so. I will, however, point out that we still have no official confirmation about just where and when the show will be set other than rumors, so at the risk of being one of those "blowhards" that you're describing, I'll say that there's still every possibility that the show will take place in the Abramsverse as much as any other universe.
