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What are your opinions regarding Star Trek that are, shall we say, unorthodox?

Paramount should spend the money they spend on Trek to build out some other new space opera franchise, possibly based on a book, stories or a comic.

Since they own the Trek IP, any design or narrative elements they want to cherry-pick and reuse would be fair game.
I’d love it, but without the decades of name recognition it would at be much higher risk if not grabbing enough of an audience fast enough. Could work anyway, and creatively it would be my preference, but it’s a risk.
 
I’d love it, but without the decades of name recognition it would at be much higher risk if not grabbing enough of an audience fast enough.
Almost no one is watching Trek now.

Don't see how a year of this could be more expensive a failure than SFA. Substantial risk, possible big payoff.
 
Star Trek: The Motion Picture's biggest problem, for me, is that it's about the characters reconnecting and regaining their camaraderie. So for a lot of the film they feel cold and out of character, and it's missing a big part of what made the TV series appealing.

I love how seriously it takes the technical side of space travel though, that bit worked.
 
I love that Kirk, Spock, McCoy didn’t stay static between TOS and TMP. I love the small bits we get of that time. I love V’ger. I love the journey it was on and how it intertwined with Spock’ journey. I love the deliberate pace of it all. I love Jerry Goldsmith’s score.

There is very little I’d change about TMP.
 
I love that Kirk, Spock, McCoy didn’t stay static between TOS and TMP. I love the small bits we get of that time. I love V’ger. I love the journey it was on and how it intertwined with Spock’ journey. I love the deliberate pace of it all. I love Jerry Goldsmith’s score.

There is very little I’d change about TMP.
You gotta hand it to TMP and TWOK for both front-lining that characters are at their most interesting when they change through the years. Watching the same characters in the same situations over and over and over again can be a slog.
 
Just in case anyone else wants to mention a universally hated episode that they love, but can't be bothered to look any of them up, here are some suggestions!

TOS: The Alternative Factor, And the Children Shall Lead, Spock's Brain
TNG: Code of Honor, Shades of Gray, Sub Rosa, Masks
DS9: Meridian, Let He Who is Without Sin..., The Muse
Voyager: Threshold, The Fight, Sacred Ground
Enterprise: Anything from season 1, go wild
Picard: Anything from season 2
SNW: Anything from season 3
 
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