Sybok in the Abrams Star Trek?

[Amaris]

Ah, but it did, and I love it anyway.


J.

 

[ClayHefner]

Sybok should return and make Uhura dance naked!

 

[Squiggy]

Ah, but it did, and I love it anyway.


J.

Why do you hate America?

 

[Phily B]

The good thing about the reboot is we can now remove all the bad things that have happened to Trek.

 

[Squiggy]

The good thing about the reboot is we can now remove all the bad things that have happened to Trek.

Spock's Brain? Never happened.
Flying up 76 decks in rocketboots as a Vulcan Hippie travels 50,000 light years in a matter of hours to meet God? Never happened.
Wesley? Never happened.
Sub Rosa? Never happened.
Nelix? Happened, but Robau killed him a thousand times over.

 

[urbandk]

Threshold... never happened.

 

[Anticitizen]

I do like the idea that Sybok could have been one of the bullies! Perhaps even the ringleader, jealous of his younger overachieving stepbrother who seems to be the family favorite...

 

[Amaris]

Ah, but it did, and I love it anyway.


J.

Why do you hate America?

Crazy Beatniks.

Oh, and John Woo.

J.

 

[Obi Wana Jones]

"That" movie just plain sucked.

Sybok was an aberration related to Shatner's ego at the time. He thought he could
one up Leonard Nimoy's efforts from Star Trek: Save the Whales

 

[RoJoHen]

I do like the idea that Sybok could have been one of the bullies! Perhaps even the ringleader, jealous of his younger overachieving stepbrother who seems to be the family favorite...

I like to think that he was one of the bullies as well, the one who calls Amanda a "human whore." He's an adolescent Vulcan who happens to be a total dickhead. "Human whore?" Yeah, no emotions in that statement at all...

 

[Psion]

"That" movie just plain sucked.

Sybok was an aberration related to Shatner's ego at the time. He thought he could
one up Leonard Nimoy's efforts from Star Trek: Save the Whales

Pardon me, but I couldn't help noticing that your pain runs deep ...

 

[Lt Cmdr Tyler]

Unless he's one of the 10,000 or so Vulcan survivors and is going to show up in a future sequel, I'm guessing Sybok died along with almost everyone else on his planet. But I guess its possible he left Vulcan by 2258 to pursue his visions of Sha Ka Ree, in which case he wasn't there when the Narada attacked to begin with.

I still believe there are more Vulcans than that out there.

 

[Bobatiel]

Let's just pretend he died . . . .

Does anyone really want to revisit that storyline?

No. I'm not pretending.

He is dead! He went back to Vulcan so Amanda could do his laundry just when Nero came along.

 

[Jeri]

Sybok is an excellent candidate for rehabilitation.

 

[TrekGuide.com]

I do like the idea that Sybok could have been one of the bullies! Perhaps even the ringleader, jealous of his younger overachieving stepbrother who seems to be the family favorite...

No, no, no! Sybok wanted to take away people's pain, not inflict it.

Let's stop beating up on poor Sybok. Every time I watch that movie, I like it a little more. Sure, it had some plot holes and and questionable spatial relationships (A 78-deck elevator shaft? Flying to the center of the Galaxy in two hours?), but I thought Sybok was a fun character, and well developed, compared to most other Trek films.

 

[FordSVT]

I was quite fond of Sybok and I think given decent writing and a decent actor to play the part he could become an interesting addition to the new movies.
Maybe Sybok is pissed at the destruction of Vulcan and blames the Federation for not protecting it when they were supposed to.
To stop Sybok Spock ends up having to kill him, something he never did in the last movie, perhaps older Spock steps in and Sybok kills older Spock leading younger Spock to make the killing.

Oh yes, by all means, combine the plot points from the movie I just saw last week with Nemesis.

How about something.... I don't know.... that hasn't been done before.

No Khan, no Borg, no "what if scenarios" involving reworked versions of prior episodes and films. Use the familiar setting to bring something new to the table. If the point of the reboot was to free their hands in some small way, why tie them up again? They'd be slaves to canon either way, just differently.

 

[cooleddie74]

Unless he's one of the 10,000 or so Vulcan survivors and is going to show up in a future sequel, I'm guessing Sybok died along with almost everyone else on his planet. But I guess its possible he left Vulcan by 2258 to pursue his visions of Sha Ka Ree, in which case he wasn't there when the Narada attacked to begin with.

I still believe there are more Vulcans than that out there.

True. Just like El-Aurians. Guinan always made it sound like they were on the razor's edge of total extinction but you always got the feeling her race was so old and well-traveled that there were far more of them out there than she admitted.