What is ''Real Star Trek''?
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I love Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek letter heads. A fan who received his wrap around tunic shared the letter which came with the costume from Anovos; the letter had a similar letter head. Does anyone know a way to replicate a Starship Enterprise letterhead?
Examples?
I can't comment about Discovery but I have seen two of the Kelvin movies and while I did enjoy them, I don't consider them to be true Star Trek. I liken them to the imaginary stories that DC comics did in the 60s. Far less goofy and campy than those comic book stories but still imaginary. In general, I don't like reboots/remakes and always consider the original to be the "real" version.
There's no such thing as "real" Star Trek. It's a tv show (and a film series). When people get into debates about what "real" Star Trek is, it's just a debate about what they like and don't like, and then they're layering their own sense of illegitimacy on the things they don't like because they don't want the things they don't like to touch the things they do, my precioussssss.
I regard the word 'real' to mean regarding all as in all aspects - the music, the story, the visual and set designs and just the whole thing. Certainly TOS outdid itself in that regard. Everything stood on its own. GR examples include 'Return of the Archons', 'Omega Glory', 'Bread and Circuses', 'The Savage Curtain'. These are my favorites and they are not so much about people as they are about things and ideas - big ideas and things.
That would have been very, very lame, yes
<voyager, early season 4>
"Oh look! A wormhole briefly opened up near the side of the ship and spewed out a Federation shuttle. One occupant, Klingon."
"Bring the shuttle aboard, mr. Kim. Any chance you could reopen that wormhole?"
"No, ma'am. The verteron horizon has collapsed in on itself too far already. Trajectory analysis shows that it must be have been an offshoot aperture to the DS9 wormhole, though."
"Ah well... then let's go meet our new travel companion. I'm curious as to who it could possibly be. "
... and then of course, still have Worf turn up in the TNG movies.
TOS is the source, occasional "the one" (the fan) must return to the source.
Ahh yes, Mudd's Women and Turnabout Intruder. The classics.
Yep this just about sums it up for a small minority of fans.
Pretty much TOS. Every spinoff has introduced format changes, some subtle, some gross, but most kept true to basic tenets discussing human nature, positively overcoming issues, or having some shred of optimism somewhere.
It also helps when the makers involved don't swear and make glib accusations and assumptions of any audience that dislikes the show. There seems to be an increasing habit in general over the last several years, and the day that critics like - say - RLM get tired of having to explain, politely, what the different nuances are and that not everybody who dislikes something is ____ist, just because... that's when you really get the popcorn.
It also helps when the makers involved don't swear and make glib accusations and assumptions of any audience that dislikes the show. There seems to be an increasing habit in general over the last several years, and the day that critics like - say - RLM get tired of having to explain, politely, what the different nuances are and that not everybody who dislikes something is ____ist, just because... that's when you really get the popcorn.
Which they have, in fact, done.
But it isn't just change, it needs to be a change that's good. While still retaining those elements that define the show.
Not just any kind of "change."
"Good" is subjective in art though, isn't it? I certainly wouldn't argue that TNG was a "good" change from the outset from TOS. The Klingon change was certainly surprising in TMP.
Kelvin Trek perhaps demonstrates this best. It was a change, but it still retained core elements of TOS. Now, there will be those who argue against that, which points to the subjectivity of "good."
And DSC is good, and still retains those elements.
I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to "Real Star Trek", and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it.
Orville! 
Real Star Trek is whatever the holders of the copyright says it is.
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