Trek XI: Boldly Going Where NEM Failed To Go

[c0rnedfr0g]

Nemesis failed because it tried to place familiar and established characters, actors, settings, etc. in a movie that would ignore all of those in an attempt to appeal to the general audience. That line was not walked well.

Star Trek XI seems to make no attempt to be burdened by 40 years of contradicting canon. It will pull out all the stops to tell a compelling story and reinvigorate the franchise. At least it can see the line NEM was straddling.

Nemesis was a dismal cap to everything in the Trek universe before it (in and of itself). With the new Trek, we get a new universe to play in.

At the very least, purists will have a newfound appreciation for Enterprise's belated attempts at canon (USS Defiant bridge in In A Mirror, Darkly).

 

[Plastic Jesus]

Well, from the looks of the trailer, it might be an attempt to do what J. Michael Straczynski was trying to do, and create a new universe to play around in free of all of the constraints imposed by the previous 40 years of story, while still having a "canon" explanation for this. Personally, I think it might be a good idea - operating within the constraints of previous shows/films ties your hands to tell new stories.

Many reinventions have tried to do something similar, as with Doctor Who, where they cleared out the Time Lords and thus a lot of obscure backstory which would have bored newcomers and killed it dead otherwise. If they had gone and created a film which reused the visual look of TOS unaltered, then we would have a complete laughing stock of a film on our hands.

I'm psyched for the new film, and the trailer just showed that there's plenty of life left in Star Trek yet.