OK!
Ive posted a few Comments and ideas over the last while and have been consistently attacked as being the reason why star trek fans are hated and laughed at.. Its fans like me who allowed star trek to die apparently..
Right so over thirty years of being a fan, owning every released box set, DVD, VHS, tonnes of models uniforms, books, magazines, toys, games, encyclopedias, etc was clearly decremental to the continuing advancement of the star trek franchise..(Add to that paying big bucks to attend fan gatherings, conventions, and midnight screenings of every release since star trek the motion picture - Except ONE! Have a guess which...)
(Note: If your planning to insult me by claiming i have no life... Know that im happily Married, with children. Why am i posting here... Because I care, and i can)
So You have all accepted this new trek as being the way forward... Good for you...
But let me point out this... There exists a star trek timeline or reality if you prefer that word that started in 1966 and ended 20 Seconds in to the film you all love which opened last week... The operative word being ... ENDED!
One time line: Examples of this are in every version of star trek, in case you cant remember here is a list which i have drawn up. A list of instances in which someone or something upset that timeline, and thankfully our heroes FIXED. In some instances they did it by changing the proper run of things (VOY:TIMELESS - Ok technically that is one where they broke the rules to save the crew.... ONE CREW! SO WHAT!) But most instances involved fixing the timeline for the better:
TOS
City on the edge of forever
ST:IV Voyage Home
TNG
Yesterdays Enterprise
Cause and effect
Times Arrow
Tapestry
ST:VII Generations
ST:VIII First Contact (Thats a big one isnt it!)
DS9
Past tense
Visionary
The visitor
Little Green Men
VOY
Relativity
Timeless
Futures End
Endgame
Year of hell
Now, these instances whether good bad or indifferent all have a common thread... Either changes to the timeline were small enough not to upset said timeline (Tribbles in DS9 - gotta love it!) -or- There were no changes at all ie Timline restored....
SO! JJ Abrams comes along and tells us this is an alternate reality... BUT Created by a charactor form the Real Reality.... No. Sorry folks thats not the case...
This is like first contact without the enterprise going back and fixing it,
This is like Year of hell where the weapons ship wins and Voyager is erased.
This is like City on the edge of forever, where the good guys dont go back and fix things.
This time line is the same one as always but because of nero its been altered so NONE OF THE OTHER SERIES EXIST! There time line is redundant, IE GONE!
If your going to point out instance where other universes are said to exist fine... Im ok with that! But those Universes exist aside from ours with no link. This trek reality is whole and has been irevocably altered with the destruction of Vulcan... And why? Why was it necessary? Why did they need to destroy a pillar of the federation?
Answer: They didnt need to, the did it anyway...
If you accept this fair enough but i dont... And im entitled to my opinion, and im not going anywhere.
But please dont delude yourself into thinking that all the other episodes still exist... they have been erased..
As for my comments in a similar thread about remakes being an excuse for poor writing... i stand by it, and il add this. Not only poor writing, but laziness. Starting a new franchise is hard work, and they dont like hard work... better to find a franchise that exists and , i dunno, say.. PISS ALL OVER IT... Typical.
