My first Sci fi love was the original BSG series. That was also my first real exposure to Sci fi as a child, and I remember being heart broken when it was canceled. I Suppose my second Sci fi love was star trek.
Star trek changed quite a bit from its original series to the next generation series. In TOS, the Klingons were the "enemy". And to a certain vague extent they were in my opinion sort of modeled after our enemies of the time, the soviet union. Back in those days, the Klingons weren’t the "Quasi Space Samurai warriors" that they became in TNG. They were the guys who showed up, and tried to kick sand in the federations face.
Now, when the very first Star trek movie came out, and all the way up to the Genesis movie, we saw a completely new Villain. These villains weren’t the Klingons of old, and they weren’t the TNG klingons either. They were all together "Alien" To me. They came off as vicious intergalactic predators, A race of Heartless and pitiless killer Aliens, bent on Galactic domination and war. The Half crazed and Psychotically Brutal Klingon captain that was after the Genesis device was to me, the PERFECT Klingon. Brutal, sadistic, and still fairly alien.
Now, here is where most of you are going to disagree, and maybe even dislike me for saying it, But the Klingons of Undiscovered Country are when in my opinion, the Beginning of a rapid downward spiral for star trek.
Poetic, Mis understood, Honorable Romantic Samurai space warriors of a sort. Future Friends of the federation even. It was in my personal opinion, the lamest thing that Gene Roddenberry could have done. After that, came TNG. which I thought was absolutely the most Horrible thing that could have afflicted the star trek universe and story line. (a fruity Shakespearian Frenchmen as a replacement for the ruf and tuff, take no crap from no one kirk of old? PLEASE!) From this disaster, sprang Cheesy TNG knock off after cheesy knock off, until Star trek had become so over used, and so “Different” from the original vision that people just seemed to start loosing interest in it. Soon people were muttering, "Trek is dead". Which was somewhat depressing to me, but certainly something I saw coming. After all, in my opinion, star trek started the long slide into Terrible, with the airing of the first TNG episode. Maybe Gene Roddenberry’s long slow slide into insanity played a Part. But I Just Hated it.
Now, I dont mean to belittle and Insult the TNG fans out there, and I know many people enjoyed the series and its spin offs. But I just couldn’t Get into the new, "Hippie galactic love why cant we all just get along" version.
Ever since TNG started, I Have yearned for the Original movies trek. I have always wished that they would just start over, with a more up to date and much less cheesy version of the original series. I wanted Kirk and His crew back, Fighting off Hoards of the Nasty and evil alien klingons that I had grown attached to.
And Just today. I heard for the first time, that a New Movie, Based on the original series Era, with a new Kirk and crew was coming out.
I was one of the Skeptical crowd, who did not like the Idea of a New Female Starbuck for the new rendition of Battle star galactica. But I was willing to View the new telling of it with an open mind. And I was not at all disappointed. And somewhere, deep down inside, I feel that the new Telling of an Old Star trek story, wont disappoint me either.
I Cant wait to see how this one turns out. and I think it might Possibly re-kindle some of that "old timy" 1980s star trek popularity, that I feel has been missing for so darn long.
Star trek changed quite a bit from its original series to the next generation series. In TOS, the Klingons were the "enemy". And to a certain vague extent they were in my opinion sort of modeled after our enemies of the time, the soviet union. Back in those days, the Klingons weren’t the "Quasi Space Samurai warriors" that they became in TNG. They were the guys who showed up, and tried to kick sand in the federations face.
Now, when the very first Star trek movie came out, and all the way up to the Genesis movie, we saw a completely new Villain. These villains weren’t the Klingons of old, and they weren’t the TNG klingons either. They were all together "Alien" To me. They came off as vicious intergalactic predators, A race of Heartless and pitiless killer Aliens, bent on Galactic domination and war. The Half crazed and Psychotically Brutal Klingon captain that was after the Genesis device was to me, the PERFECT Klingon. Brutal, sadistic, and still fairly alien.
Now, here is where most of you are going to disagree, and maybe even dislike me for saying it, But the Klingons of Undiscovered Country are when in my opinion, the Beginning of a rapid downward spiral for star trek.
Poetic, Mis understood, Honorable Romantic Samurai space warriors of a sort. Future Friends of the federation even. It was in my personal opinion, the lamest thing that Gene Roddenberry could have done. After that, came TNG. which I thought was absolutely the most Horrible thing that could have afflicted the star trek universe and story line. (a fruity Shakespearian Frenchmen as a replacement for the ruf and tuff, take no crap from no one kirk of old? PLEASE!) From this disaster, sprang Cheesy TNG knock off after cheesy knock off, until Star trek had become so over used, and so “Different” from the original vision that people just seemed to start loosing interest in it. Soon people were muttering, "Trek is dead". Which was somewhat depressing to me, but certainly something I saw coming. After all, in my opinion, star trek started the long slide into Terrible, with the airing of the first TNG episode. Maybe Gene Roddenberry’s long slow slide into insanity played a Part. But I Just Hated it.
Now, I dont mean to belittle and Insult the TNG fans out there, and I know many people enjoyed the series and its spin offs. But I just couldn’t Get into the new, "Hippie galactic love why cant we all just get along" version.
Ever since TNG started, I Have yearned for the Original movies trek. I have always wished that they would just start over, with a more up to date and much less cheesy version of the original series. I wanted Kirk and His crew back, Fighting off Hoards of the Nasty and evil alien klingons that I had grown attached to.
And Just today. I heard for the first time, that a New Movie, Based on the original series Era, with a new Kirk and crew was coming out.
I was one of the Skeptical crowd, who did not like the Idea of a New Female Starbuck for the new rendition of Battle star galactica. But I was willing to View the new telling of it with an open mind. And I was not at all disappointed. And somewhere, deep down inside, I feel that the new Telling of an Old Star trek story, wont disappoint me either.
I Cant wait to see how this one turns out. and I think it might Possibly re-kindle some of that "old timy" 1980s star trek popularity, that I feel has been missing for so darn long.
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