Star Trek: The Future Begins (ST:TFB) or ST:11 is TINO, or Trek in Name Only.
The Star Trek created by Roddenberry in TOS, the movies, and ST:TNG was about good science, science fiction that made sense, and stories that had a positive point about humanity using human/alien or human/technology to flesh that out.
The movie, ST:TFB is a take off of Star Wars with characters who have names like Kirk, Spock, and Pike. ST:TFB has phaser battles, hand-to-hand combat, torture, and weird aliens from Hoth (oh, I meant Delta Vega).
TOS, TNG, TWOK, TVH, TUC, FC, DS9, and ENT (Manny Coto year) all did a good job with good science, plausible science fiction, and stories that showed the conflict between man and alien, man and technology, and man against society.
ST:TFB only ranks a little higher than Voyager, or Lost in Space Trek because of the good special effects, explosions, and good acting. The story, however, is hogwash and bad science.
For example, we have to believe that some star goes supernova and the explosion threatens not only Romulus (who mourns for Remas) but the whole quadrant?
And, when Spock goes out to save the day he's late. When has Spock been late?
The explosion from another star (remember the supernova sun wasn't Romulus) travels so fast that the Romulans don't have like a couple of years to escape its effect (explosions from supernovas don't travel faster than the speed of light).
Spock needs this red matter stuff (never explained) to save the quadrant, and he only has to use a pinch, so he brings a 60 gallon bag of the stuff?
Also, Starfleet is in such need of recruits that it picks up a drunkard townie who picks fights with the cadets. Yes, this is something we can believe in.
When the crisis hits and a dozen or more ships depart from Earth, who gets the call. Not the experienced officers of all these ships, but all the cadets from the Academy.
And, to be even more picky, the engineering deck looked like waste management facility from 2009.
But. the worst part of the movie is when Spock strangles Kirk. Anyone who knows anything about Spock knows that Spock wouldn't strangle Kirk (without at least good dose of spores). Spock would never lose his cool like this, and especially not because because some jerk, about to expelled, already thrown off the ship officer is taunting him.
This movie wasn't made for Trekkers. It was a standard issue Hollywood movie that was filled with a lot of under 25 year-old actors and no mature adults. It was meant to grab the teen dollar, not to recapture the vision of Roddenberry. Paramount doesn't care and didn't care when it signed off on this movie that the movie rips and tears down the concept of Star Trek.
A good pick up the pace film set after Nemesis could have been made, or if a prequel had to be made, we could find out how Kirk got the Palm Leaf of Axanar. That sounds like a story that needs to be told. Enterprise had a few good episodes about the formation of the early Federation (Manny Coto) and a decent (as I look back on it) time bending story involving the Xindi. These concepts could have been explored in a prequel without destroying the characters we know, and tearing down the Star Trek universe.
But, in the end, Paramount wasn't concerned about the Trekkers, they were concerned about making a buck and they really wanted to change things so they could write more rubbish using the concepts from TOS because when it really comes down to it, they are lazy too.
The Star Trek created by Roddenberry in TOS, the movies, and ST:TNG was about good science, science fiction that made sense, and stories that had a positive point about humanity using human/alien or human/technology to flesh that out.
The movie, ST:TFB is a take off of Star Wars with characters who have names like Kirk, Spock, and Pike. ST:TFB has phaser battles, hand-to-hand combat, torture, and weird aliens from Hoth (oh, I meant Delta Vega).
TOS, TNG, TWOK, TVH, TUC, FC, DS9, and ENT (Manny Coto year) all did a good job with good science, plausible science fiction, and stories that showed the conflict between man and alien, man and technology, and man against society.
ST:TFB only ranks a little higher than Voyager, or Lost in Space Trek because of the good special effects, explosions, and good acting. The story, however, is hogwash and bad science.
For example, we have to believe that some star goes supernova and the explosion threatens not only Romulus (who mourns for Remas) but the whole quadrant?
And, when Spock goes out to save the day he's late. When has Spock been late?
The explosion from another star (remember the supernova sun wasn't Romulus) travels so fast that the Romulans don't have like a couple of years to escape its effect (explosions from supernovas don't travel faster than the speed of light).
Spock needs this red matter stuff (never explained) to save the quadrant, and he only has to use a pinch, so he brings a 60 gallon bag of the stuff?
Also, Starfleet is in such need of recruits that it picks up a drunkard townie who picks fights with the cadets. Yes, this is something we can believe in.
When the crisis hits and a dozen or more ships depart from Earth, who gets the call. Not the experienced officers of all these ships, but all the cadets from the Academy.
And, to be even more picky, the engineering deck looked like waste management facility from 2009.
But. the worst part of the movie is when Spock strangles Kirk. Anyone who knows anything about Spock knows that Spock wouldn't strangle Kirk (without at least good dose of spores). Spock would never lose his cool like this, and especially not because because some jerk, about to expelled, already thrown off the ship officer is taunting him.
This movie wasn't made for Trekkers. It was a standard issue Hollywood movie that was filled with a lot of under 25 year-old actors and no mature adults. It was meant to grab the teen dollar, not to recapture the vision of Roddenberry. Paramount doesn't care and didn't care when it signed off on this movie that the movie rips and tears down the concept of Star Trek.
A good pick up the pace film set after Nemesis could have been made, or if a prequel had to be made, we could find out how Kirk got the Palm Leaf of Axanar. That sounds like a story that needs to be told. Enterprise had a few good episodes about the formation of the early Federation (Manny Coto) and a decent (as I look back on it) time bending story involving the Xindi. These concepts could have been explored in a prequel without destroying the characters we know, and tearing down the Star Trek universe.
But, in the end, Paramount wasn't concerned about the Trekkers, they were concerned about making a buck and they really wanted to change things so they could write more rubbish using the concepts from TOS because when it really comes down to it, they are lazy too.
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