People can be very frightened of change.
We should have made this the forum motto.I believe this line gets to the heart of all the complaints from people who have not seen this movie. They fear the unknown. They fear change. They fear someone will screw up their memories of TOS...
We never were worried about change before.
The "redesigned and refitted" Enterprise, its destruction and its being replaced by the Enterprise-A, TNG, DS9, Voyager, even Enterprise...
I wouldn't say Trek fans are frightened of change.
I'd say we don't like being told one thing, only to later find out something else is true. 'It fits totally in the existing timeline. It changes nothing. It's just a story never before told.'
Yeah.
On a ship that, it seems (it SEEMS) won't look like the one we know, but is being presented as BEING the one we knew.
Is it so hard to invent a new crew whose ship will look different because its in a different era?
Of course not. We've seen it done, and loved it.
We could accept a leap beyond TNG's era. We could accept never seeing Picard and Data again. We knew it'd happened with Kirk and company, and we could deal with it again. A new crew, maybe further into the future...
What's so hard about that? It could have the same spirit as the original, if that's how the people involved wanted it.
Oh, but no. They wanted more. They wanted to take Kirk and Spock and what we knew and OVERWRITE it.
Then on top of it they DENIED having done that...but then the pictures were released.
I've said it again and again, if they'd changed the ship no more than the uniforms, I'd have been totally on board. Hey, a few things changed during the run of TOS without being explained. Okay. More of the same.
But to turn the bridge into an original iMac with thryoid problems?
It looks nothing like what we knew, and I'm wondering what horrors are awaiting us when we first see the Enterprise.
I'm guessing it won't be similar to the "Oooooh!" and "Aaaah!" experience fans had with TMP. (Of course, that change was explained. How do you explain this one?)
I think the expressions of concern are legitimate, and for people who try to make the concerns sound like a bad thing, it suggests maybe they don't love TOS as much as they try to make out, and are simply more vocal and nasty than those who do.
As also mentioned elsewhere, I'll be going to see this film, and likely any sequels, but I may be a little disappointed. We may have to lose the Trek we knew to get this new serving.
Hey, if the differences even get explained in the movie ("The timeline got altered by the Romulans and their earliest efforts to alter the past"), that'd be something. It'd in a way mean this IS still our TOS, but we can blame the Romulans for things looking different.
But don't tell me this story is simply a tale we never heard before, and that it changes nothing...
When it does exactly that. It changes quite a few things...or so it seems.
Once again, I've said elsewhere "Let's wait and see" but I'm getting some bad feelings about this due to a certain source speaking honestly... which they didn't do before.
Tell me a good story, but don't go and try to take over the ones that came before. And for cryin' out loud, DON'T tell me you haven't done something when that's EXACTLY what you've done.
Come on guys.
They may have changed Trek and overwritten it. That means everything we've known is gone, and can't be added to. From this point on something ELSE is being called Star Trek. (And heaven help us as we try to figure out what continuity any new novels take place in, whether they take place in the TOS era, post TOS era, or even 24th century, which would surely be affected by a change in Kirk's time. Do any new novels in ANY era take place in the original timeline, or the new one? And what about series currently in the midst of being written?!?!)
This is pretty dramatic stuff for people who really love Star Trek, and for anyone to poo-poo someone else's concerns...
That's not only hard-hearted, it's pretty narrow minded.
