VULCAN (future movies, SPOILERS) -- POLL

[Danoz]

I tried to be as vague as possible in the title, but this is a poll deciding how you would deal with/have dealt with Vulcan both in this movie and future ones.

Choices:

Would have never destroyed Vulcan.
Would have destroyed and then saved in this movie.
Keep destroyed. Never save.
Keep destroyed. Restore in a future movie somehow.

I think the handling of Vulcan in this movie is one of the best things Abrams could have done to establish a new, unknown reality for our new characters. Bringing it back (especially via timetravel) would amount to resorting to the kind of contrived, "reset-button" writing that has dominated the series for far too long.

Thoughts?

 

[Chess Piece Face]

Keep destroyed so that things mean something in this universe and actions have consequences. NO RESET BUTTON EVER. Thank you.

 

[What's his face]

The reset button needs to be disconnected, removed from the console and thrown out.

 

[Agent Richard07]

I wouldn't have destroyed Vulcan. It's pretty big for Trek and too big for a movie. There isn't enough time to devote to the fallout of such a massive event.

 

[CommanderRaytas]

The reset button should vanish into the black hole that ate up Vulcan.

Keep destroyed. Never save.

 

[Temeraire]

Amen

 

[Obi Wana Jones]

Most of this movie rocks. In fact I loved it. However. . .

That part of the movie just blew.
It basically threw out one of the biggest pieces of Trek Mythology.
That was Abrams kiss-off to long time Trekkies; "my movie, my Star
Trek, my mythology."

 

[T'Bonz]

Most of this movie rocks. In fact I loved it. However. . .

That part of the movie just blew.
It basically threw out one of the biggest pieces of Trek Mythology.
That was Abrams kiss-off to long time Trekkies; "my movie, my Star
Trek, my mythology."

Word.

They should have destroyed the KLINGON homeworld...

 

[Danoz]

Most of this movie rocks. In fact I loved it. However. . .

That part of the movie just blew.
It basically threw out one of the biggest pieces of Trek Mythology.
That was Abrams kiss-off to long time Trekkies; "my movie, my Star
Trek, my mythology."

True, but what he did also was given himself and his team the creative freedom to do anything without any frivolous concerns for the canon and continuity-- while STILL bringing in Nimoy and given the work the blessing of one of its most important veterans. Let's also remember that this movie is easily a follow-up from TNG "Unification" -- another very good throwback to serious fans.

 

[MikeS]

I would never have destroyed it, but now that they've done it, it should remain that way. :'-(

 

[Danoz]

Most of this movie rocks. In fact I loved it. However. . .

That part of the movie just blew.
It basically threw out one of the biggest pieces of Trek Mythology.
That was Abrams kiss-off to long time Trekkies; "my movie, my Star
Trek, my mythology."

Word.

They should have destroyed the KLINGON homeworld...

The Klingon homeworld has real cultural value. Vulcan, on the other had, is an arid Dune-like planet where very little Treklore actually takes place.... and the possibility for a Vulcan diaspora is really intriguing... it does, however, really, really mess up the balance of power in the Trek universe and weakens the Federation beyond repair.

 

[CommanderRaytas]

I'm not going to shed a tear over Vulcan. But I have even less love in my heart for the Klingons. Now that is one bloody annoying species.

 

[Jeri]

I just answered the question in the poll: I would never have thought of destroying Vulcan. I loved that planet.

But that done, the current situation is very stimulating, and I'd like to see them deal with it, not bring it back.

 

[Danoz]

I just answered the question in the poll: I would never have thought of destroying Vulcan. I loved that planet.

But that done, the current situation is very stimulating, and I'd like to see them deal with it, not bring it back.

Agreed.

 

[ChristopherPike]

As smug and superior as the race were during ENT/TOS (one DS9 episode too come to think of it), I would not have done this.

Bad enough they destroyed the Time Lords in Doctor Who, now I have to contend with two of my Sci Fi idols blubbing like emotional inadequates in need of therapy.

Shame they didn't destroy Earth, to really set this alternate reality apart from the Prime Universe. Audiences would have reason to demand for a reset button that way...

 

[Jeri]

In one of the books, it suggests that Vulcan already had a population catastrophe that they've recovered from.

They supposedly had a solar flare that wiped out a lot of the planet's atmosphere, which left it the arid, desert planet we came to know.

I always thought Vulcan was ruggedly beautiful; but I'm from Arizona.

 

[Danoz]

As smug and superior as the race were during ENT/TOS (one DS9 episode too come to think of it), I would not have done this.

Are you thinking of the baseball episode? It's quite certain that in this new timeline, those Vulcans who came to form that team were never born...

Bad enough they destroyed the Time Lords in Doctor Who, now I have to contend with two of my Sci Fi idols blubbing like emotional inadequates in need of therapy.

Haha thanks for the Dr. Who spoiler . I still plan on seeing that someday!

Shame they didn't destroy Earth, to really set this alternate reality apart from the Prime Universe. Audiences would have reason to demand for a reset button that way...

I think more people would have scoffed at the complete destruction of Earth. It would have felt like Abrams was trying to turn Star Trek in nuBSG...

 

[Danoz]

The big thing about the Vulcan scene is that my jaw literally dropped when I saw Vulcan explode. I've been watching Trek long enough to completely not expect that kind of irreversible genocide to take place... and for Abrams to be so bold as to completely turn this new timeline into something SO far outside the series we know that the future won't even be recognizable to the one we grew up with.

It was a very risky move. To Abrams credit... it was effective.

 

[borgboy]

Destroying Vulcan was a bold move that really worked imo. When I saw Vulcan destoryed, I knew that the new continuity was going to really go somewhere, without playing it safe or reaching for the reset button when things got too risky.
Resetting things would only undermine the viability of the new series of movies. Move boldly forward I say.

 

[arch101]

I'm VERY happy that TREk now has writers willing to take these kinds of dramatic risks. By destroying Vulcan, they've created a situation for much drama in future installments. Leonard Nimoy should be jealous: the Spock character just became 10 times more interesting.