Seriously now, isn't the newest Trek movie just...

[JarodRussell]

The OP really doesn't make any sense. If the next movie comes up short, somehow you'll retroactively feel different about the last movie?

Many do about Insurrection, because Nemesis sucked. Although it did well, and was not bad, somehow Insurrection is believed to be the end of it all. Heck, there are even some extremists who now say that the first season of TNG was the beginning of the end.

If the next movie sucks and fails, you'd be surprised about the backlash against this movie in retrospect.

 

[I am not Spock]

I hope the next one is as good, or better, than Trek XI. Now that Trek is back, the next challenge is to make sure it STAYS back. The fickle non-Trekkies will move on to something else as quick as blink if XII is a disappointment.

I think there should not be a new TV series for a while. Make Trek an event. Something to look forward to every couple of years, rather than taking it for granted because its on telly every week. I think that is why Star Wars doesn't have the same stigma attached to it as Trek. Because Wars was a movie series that had a new film every few years, so there was more anticipation for it. I want Trek to have that kind of anticipation in people's minds. Not just us, but the movie going public at large.

 

[Chrisisall]

I hear Ed Norton's Hulk was an improvement too, but I haven't seen it.

Oh you MUST, it was so well done compared to the other one!

The OP really doesn't make any sense. If the next movie comes up short, somehow you'll retroactively feel different about the last movie?

Uhhh. Yes. Like how STIII effed up the importance of Spock's sacrifice in II.
If the next movie makes the previous one a "bad dream" or a "fixable incident" temporally speaking, it could totally ruin things- DO NOT underestimate the power of the Empre- err, studio.

 

[CaptainPipcard]

Star Trek was good. I'm hoping the sequel will be better (whatever the plot is)

 

[Chrisisall]

Star Trek was good. I'm hoping the sequel will be better (whatever the plot is)

I have confidence....

 

[Therin of Andor]

My take on it is that it was very calculated to hit all the right notes - appease fans, appeal to the mass market, succeed as a big-budget shoot-em-up, garner good critical reviews as being more intelligent and character based than the average summer popcorn fare, re-establish Star Trek as a respectable brand name and not a campy joke or a has-been. That's a lot to accomplish in a mere two hours, but they did it.

Totally agree! When people were panicking about JJ and Bad Robot, and all the secrecy, I looked back to "Lost" and "Cloverfield" and relaxed. Fresh, innovative, clever, successful.

The OP really doesn't make any sense. If the next movie comes up short, somehow you'll retroactively feel different about the last movie?

Happens all the time. I have loved ST:TMP since the beginning, but I've watched other fans evolve the whole gamut of opinions on their reactions to that movie over the decades. Ditto ST IV.