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I know the point of the new Star Trek film isn't really about pleasing me. I'm a life-long fan. I'm thirty-two years old. The demo they're aiming for is people my students' age, in the fifteen to seventeen range, and probably even a little younger.
That said, I'd been hopeful for a long time that Trek XI would be the best of both worlds: faithful to TOS, but also bringing some new material to the table, much as the really good Trek novels have done.
However, having seen the Enterprise and read some truly spoileriffic details, I'm now convinced this isn't the Star Trek I loved, even with Nimoy's presence and "blessing."
Spoilers from here on out.
*Kirk isn't even in the Academy, but EVERYONE else from TOS is? Please. Absolute bullshit, contradicted by a number of references in TOS. This just doesn't work.
*Pike is the first captain of the Enterprise? Not a big problem, really. But the ENTIRE TOS cast serving aboard the Enterprise under Pike? No Piper? Sulu in command? Fucking Chekov, too? Are you kidding me?
*The thirteen or so years between "The Cage" and TOS gone. Not only that, but it would seem, "The Cage" gone as well. If anything, Abrams could've avoided this by just making the Enterprise...
*...NOT BRAND NEW WHEN KIRK COMES ABOARD!!! Are you serious? Really? The Enterprise was over a decade old when Kirk took command. That's canon, not the supposition of the novels.
*The Enterprise herself. Wow, what a fucking monstrosity. Absolutely horrible. The engineering hull is a disaster, and the nacelles? Really? That's what "folks who are fresh to Trek" came up with? Didn't anyone on Abrams' team consider looking here (Vektor, etc) and elsewhere (Koerner) for inspiration?
Bottom-line, I think the cast looks too young, too pretty, and just too out of place. Add to that a storyline that's flying at warp speed with canon and logic, and THE science fiction starship needlessly and messily "reimagined," and you have this...
...I'm not going see Star Trek XI. Today's reveals were the last straw.
And as for Star Trek in general, I've accepted that there will be no new Trek for me any more. I'm sure the novels will continue, along with the comics, but eventually, even they'll be made to align with the new "Abramsverse" of the film.
I have my TOS DVD sets and my DVDs of the TOS films. That's all I really need, and it really won't get any better than that, anyway.
Does anyone else feel this way?
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That said, I'd been hopeful for a long time that Trek XI would be the best of both worlds: faithful to TOS, but also bringing some new material to the table, much as the really good Trek novels have done.
However, having seen the Enterprise and read some truly spoileriffic details, I'm now convinced this isn't the Star Trek I loved, even with Nimoy's presence and "blessing."
Spoilers from here on out.
*Kirk isn't even in the Academy, but EVERYONE else from TOS is? Please. Absolute bullshit, contradicted by a number of references in TOS. This just doesn't work.
*Pike is the first captain of the Enterprise? Not a big problem, really. But the ENTIRE TOS cast serving aboard the Enterprise under Pike? No Piper? Sulu in command? Fucking Chekov, too? Are you kidding me?
*The thirteen or so years between "The Cage" and TOS gone. Not only that, but it would seem, "The Cage" gone as well. If anything, Abrams could've avoided this by just making the Enterprise...
*...NOT BRAND NEW WHEN KIRK COMES ABOARD!!! Are you serious? Really? The Enterprise was over a decade old when Kirk took command. That's canon, not the supposition of the novels.
*The Enterprise herself. Wow, what a fucking monstrosity. Absolutely horrible. The engineering hull is a disaster, and the nacelles? Really? That's what "folks who are fresh to Trek" came up with? Didn't anyone on Abrams' team consider looking here (Vektor, etc) and elsewhere (Koerner) for inspiration?
Bottom-line, I think the cast looks too young, too pretty, and just too out of place. Add to that a storyline that's flying at warp speed with canon and logic, and THE science fiction starship needlessly and messily "reimagined," and you have this...
...I'm not going see Star Trek XI. Today's reveals were the last straw.
And as for Star Trek in general, I've accepted that there will be no new Trek for me any more. I'm sure the novels will continue, along with the comics, but eventually, even they'll be made to align with the new "Abramsverse" of the film.
I have my TOS DVD sets and my DVDs of the TOS films. That's all I really need, and it really won't get any better than that, anyway.
Does anyone else feel this way?
\S/
