Time Travel Is Just So Overused!

[igrokbok]

Well, disregarding the spin-offs, TOS did time travel what, 5 times? Out of 79 episodes, it was done 5 times. And it was always done well. So, number one, it hasn't been "Done to death". Not where it counts anyway.

Add to that the fact that the most successful Trek movie of all time was Trek 4: The Voyage Home. Making a TOS movie with a plot revolving around time travel makes perfect sense.

 

[Warp Coil]

I think time travel has been abused a bit too much by various Trek writers over the years. I would really like to see Trek avoid the sci-fi cliches that appeared all too often in the later series (like time travel, spacial anomalies, alternate universes).

This doesn't mean I won't see Trek XI. I remain cautiously optimistic that JJ Abrams will make a great film, and hopefully whatever time travel stuff they use will be done tastefully.

 

[PKTrekGirl]

A bad movie is not bad because there is or isn't time travel in it. It is bad because it is some combination of the following: poorly conceived, poorly written, or poorly acted.

Time travel is just the same as any other plot device - it is simply that: a device used to tell the story. If the story is great, the inclusion of time travel is not gonna make it suck. And if a story sucks, no amount of time travel is gonna make it better.

 

[shapeshifter]

I think the TT aspect of this film is just a vehicle to transport us back though the Trek timeline to a place in time where stories that should have been told before but weren't can be told.

An ideal situation imo would be; The film starts in the post Nemesis era and we eventually follow Spock back in time. Then at the end, when Spock goes back to the future he leaves US in the past, we don't go with him. The door is then open for us to see more stories, (via sequels) in that time which should already been told but were not. The door is then open for this crew to fill gaps in the saga all the way to The Motion Picture.

 

[Sharr Khan]

A bad movie is not bad because there is or isn't time travel in it. It is bad because it is some combination of the following: poorly conceived, poorly written, or poorly acted.

Time travel is just the same as any other plot device - it is simply that: a device used to tell the story. If the story is great, the inclusion of time travel is not gonna make it suck. And if a story sucks, no amount of time travel is gonna make it better.

Bingo!

Sharr