Storylines That Fans Don't Like

[HaplessCrewman]

I don't watch the HBO series Game of Thrones but found this turn of events interesting.

[Spoiler Warning?]

The Mary Sue (self-decribed as "the premier destination for entertainment geeks, female or otherwise") has decided to stop promoting GoT because they did not like what happened to a character/a specific storyline on the show last Sunday.

They explain why here.

I admire their passion for the show and wondered if Trek has ever inspired anything similar. The threatened boycott of TWOK (due to Mr. Spock's rumored death) comes to mind. I'm sure there must be many more such instances.

Can anyone think of any other Trek storylines that fans did not like which resulted in a 'boycott"?

 

[Captain Clark Terrell]

^I can't think of anything that led to boycott, but I've never met anyone who was happy with the Chakotay/Seven of Nine relationship that seemingly popped up out of nowhere at the end of Voyager's run. There's a version of "Endgame" floating around that has their scenes together edited out because the backlash from fans was so negative.

--Sran

 

[Turd Ferguson]

I seem to recall a few years back, they did this reboot/sequel thing where it took place after TNG, but ended up before TOS and made Star Trek fun again with different actors replacing Kirk, Spock, Uhura, etc. Apparently they brought Khan back and everybody went apeshit.

 

[HaplessCrewman]

GoT fans got nothing on Trek fan outrage!

Oh, nerd fandom, don't ever change.

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

Chakotay/Seven

Temporal Cold War

Most of ENT S1 and 2

STiD

 

[Captain Clark Terrell]

^I didn't mind the Temporal Cold War but wish it hadn't been confined to Enterprise.

Spoiler: Temporal Cold War

Christopher's Watching the Clock states that the factions of the Temporal Cold War didn't want to risk interfering with Federation history because of its role in the creation and destruction of the Borg due to the Caeliar/Columbia temporal loop, but that doesn't explain why they'd meddle with Archer's life, as he was close to Erika Hernandez. How could the factions have known that changing the course of Archer's life wouldn't prevent Captain Hernandez and her crew from encountering the Gestalt and triggering the chain of events that resulted in Mantilis' displacement and the eventual creation of the Borg from the Columbia MACO continent?

--Sran

 

[Makarov]

I find the outrage over the got ending weird because it's nothing new to the show! As far as Trek goes, it seems a lot of fans don't like Data's bit in Nemesis.

 

[CRM-114]

Personally, I hate any story line that has the "RESET" button hit at the end. It's kind of difficult to care about what happens if the events aren't allowed to stand.

That's one of the things I liked most about ST09. Not so much that Vulcan was destroyed, but that they let it stand. When Vulcan was destroyed, the drama of the moment was undercut for me because my first thought was, "Okay, how are they going to undo this?" Star Trek, at some point, undercut its' own ability to deliver compelling drama because anything could be undone, to the point that it was expected that any major disaster would inevitably be reversed.

 

[Cyke101]

I find the outrage over the got ending weird because it's nothing new to the show!

Off topic, but if you read their link, that's precisely one of the major reasons why they're not promoting the show anymore. Say what you will about the ending, but they specifically cite the repetition, and ask what story purpose does that repetition serve.

 

[Magellan]

These are the Voyages might have induced some boycotts had there been anything to boycott afterwards.

 

[Ithekro]

Well UPN went off the air not too long after that.

 

[martok2112]

Nerd rage influences little anymore.
If fans were allowed any creative influence at all, then stories would never be told, and artists do not get the freedom they should be allowed.

Don't like it? Tune out. No worry, there will be plenty of other folk that do like the changes.

Spock's death was not changed because of nerd rage. Spock's death was changed because Nimoy was offered a director's chair in the third outing.

Kirk has been resurrected in novels after Generations because of Shatner's ego.

The less reasonable fans (generally those of arrested maturity development) always tend to think that the favored property in question is always about them. (The self-entitlement/ownership syndrome.) The delusion has often mildly amused me, like a little child that thinks he/she is somehow always entitled to something from the candy section at the grocery store every time he/she has to accompany mom and dad on such a trip. But some fans get so overzealous about their delusions that it's become an annoyance.

 

[Disco]

Nerd rage influences little anymore.
If fans were allowed any creative influence at all, then stories would never be told, and artists do not get the freedom they should be allowed.

Don't like it? Tune out.

Spock's death was not changed because of nerd rage. Spock's death was changed because Nimoy was offered a director's chair in the third outing.

Kirk has been resurrected in novels after Generations because of Shatner's ego.

Fans always tend to think that the favored property in question is always about them. (The self-entitlement/ownership syndrome.) The delusion has often mildly amused me, like a little child that thinks he/she is somehow always entitled to something from the candy section at the grocery store every time he/she has to accompany mom and dad on such a trip. But some fans get so overzealous about their delusions that it's become an annoyance.

It clearly does; nerd rage stopped people watching Enterprise and it was cancelled.

 

[martok2112]

Nerd rage influences little anymore.
If fans were allowed any creative influence at all, then stories would never be told, and artists do not get the freedom they should be allowed.

Don't like it? Tune out.

Spock's death was not changed because of nerd rage. Spock's death was changed because Nimoy was offered a director's chair in the third outing.

Kirk has been resurrected in novels after Generations because of Shatner's ego.

Fans always tend to think that the favored property in question is always about them. (The self-entitlement/ownership syndrome.) The delusion has often mildly amused me, like a little child that thinks he/she is somehow always entitled to something from the candy section at the grocery store every time he/she has to accompany mom and dad on such a trip. But some fans get so overzealous about their delusions that it's become an annoyance.

It clearly does; nerd rage stopped people watching Enterprise and it was cancelled.

It didn't stop me. But then, I'm not a fan of anything. Haven't been for quite a while.

Out of respect for everyone else, I am going to say no more. I've harped on long enough about the fallacies and follies of fandom in plenty of other threads, and I do not wish to overly offend fans here.

 

[-Brett-]

Nerd rage influences little anymore.
If fans were allowed any creative influence at all, then stories would never be told, and artists do not get the freedom they should be allowed.

Don't like it? Tune out.

Spock's death was not changed because of nerd rage. Spock's death was changed because Nimoy was offered a director's chair in the third outing.

Kirk has been resurrected in novels after Generations because of Shatner's ego.

Fans always tend to think that the favored property in question is always about them. (The self-entitlement/ownership syndrome.) The delusion has often mildly amused me, like a little child that thinks he/she is somehow always entitled to something from the candy section at the grocery store every time he/she has to accompany mom and dad on such a trip. But some fans get so overzealous about their delusions that it's become an annoyance.

It clearly does; nerd rage stopped people watching Enterprise and it was cancelled.

People stopped watching Enterprise because it was bad.

 

[Disco]

Nerd rage influences little anymore.
If fans were allowed any creative influence at all, then stories would never be told, and artists do not get the freedom they should be allowed.

Don't like it? Tune out.

Spock's death was not changed because of nerd rage. Spock's death was changed because Nimoy was offered a director's chair in the third outing.

Kirk has been resurrected in novels after Generations because of Shatner's ego.

Fans always tend to think that the favored property in question is always about them. (The self-entitlement/ownership syndrome.) The delusion has often mildly amused me, like a little child that thinks he/she is somehow always entitled to something from the candy section at the grocery store every time he/she has to accompany mom and dad on such a trip. But some fans get so overzealous about their delusions that it's become an annoyance.

It clearly does; nerd rage stopped people watching Enterprise and it was cancelled.

People stopped watching Enterprise because it was bad.

Yeah that too

 

[enterprisecvn65]

Basically any story line that centered around LaForge because they almost always centered around 1 of 2 things, sometimes both.

1. That he was incredibly awkward with women and the most action he got was with a holodeck Leah Brahams when she made some weird comparison of the warp engines to her breasts.

2. In physically demanding situations he was often exposed as being extremely weak. These situations seemed to lead to his being captured a lot.

Basically when he wasn't in main engineering or on the bridge he was pretty worthless.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Anything new is automatically a fail. Even current fan-favourite Wrath of Khan was reamed upon release - take a look at this thread, comparing anti-Wrath of Khan letters from Interstat with 2013 complaints about the story and direction of Into Darkness. Same shit, different day.

 

[Makarov]

Nerd rage can influence stuff if enough nerds are raging. Take Mass Effect 3 which ending caused nerd rage (even though I thought it was very good). It almost certainly influenced whatever that company is going to do next. In fact they released extended cut DLC of the ending.

 

[-Brett-]

Well, to be fair, if a restaurant served your dinner cold, undercooked, and in no way resembling the description on the menu, then whined about "artistic integrity" when you asked them to fix it, I think most customers would have at least a little "nerd rage".

Gamers have cried wolf a few too many times to be taken seriously, but the gaming industry does treat its paying customers like shit.