This thread rather proves the point that Abrams made a Trek movie for non-Trek fans. The people who have expressed love for the reboot are (largely) the same group who expresses disdain or dislike for the TV series and the original movie franchise.
I'm not buying it. It's seems to be only a few that don't like the movie and are Trek enthusiasts. I consider myself to be quite the Trek enthusiast and I enjoyed Abrams reboot. Perhaps it's because I've never had a blind loyalty to Roddenberry's vision.
I'm not sure, either. My wife and I have the complete run of every series (except Enterprise) and all of the movies on DVD (plus, we've recently watched seasons 2-4 of that Enterprise). We thought the reboot was pretty decent and with some qualifications (most of which Demosthenes earlier summarized), we're looking forward to the next one. Now, that trailer isn't promising, and the painfully unidiomatic "detonation" of the fleet suggests that the wheels, which while I'm not ready to predict that they're going to fall off, might be pretty loose. But we'll give Abrams a chance to overcome earlier shortcomings.
John Harrison who? http://movies.cosmicbooknews.com/co...hn-harrison-star-trek-darkness-omicron-spores
I must say except for the destruction of Vulcan, I really enjoyed Abrams Star Trek. I also thought the actors were spot on for the roles with Pine, Quinto and the guy who played Mr. Scott.
That covers my position. Plus it's a pretty good (if not perfect) rule that the Star Trek franchise alternates strong releases with weak.
Since I never cared for the original ST, I was never going to like the reboot. In fact, I hated it, for much the same reasons that spejic enumerated. I'm not going to pay money to see this one either... However, you are right in the casting of Pine, Quinto and Simon Pegg, Abrams and crew nailed it.
This is pretty cool of Abrams: http://movies.yahoo.com/blogs/movie-talk/j-j-abrams-grants-trekkie-dying-wish-see-000643743.html
Pixar did it for a 10 year old girl with vascular cancer who wanted to see Up, they flew an employee with a copy of the movie to her house for a private viewing. The employee brought a bag of stuffed animals of characters and a movie poster along as well. The girl died 7 hours after the movie ended.
The Star Trek reboot is two parts good Star Trek (that is, like old Star Trek but without the preachy sentimental SMH material) and one part Starship Troopers. I'm not sure if the overall result is better. Probably not.
So if JJ Abrams, a Star Wars fan, goes and ruined the Star Trek series, does that mean we (Star Wars fan) actually won?
That's not true. I watched Star Trek from the beginning, when it was broadcast on prime time on NBC. I wrote letters along with several of my grade school classmates to NBC begging them not to cancel the series. They brought it back. I watched Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager and Enterprise. I saw all of the films in theaters too. A big F U to Robert Wise for making Star Trek the Motion Picture. It was terrible. He completely missed the intent of the series. I have no issues with the reboot and I thought they did a great job of capturing the essence of the original characters.
Just watched the newest trailer, all I can say is, bring it on! I do have to say though, maybe they showed to much in the trailer, IDK, maybe it's just me.
Since it's turned into an informal survey, I too have always been a ST fan, back to the original series, then the cartoon series, and all series afterwards. I built Star Trek models (Enterprise, the bridge, Klingon and Romulan ships, K7 Space Station, the Galileo 7, phaser, tricorder and communicator, Spock shooting a three-headed snake). I thought Persis Khambata was one hot bald chick (though I thought the movie was boring). Heck, I think I VCR'ed all episodes of ST:TNG and later series (not that I ever watch them, but I think they are still in a box in the basement) [remember VCR's?]. I've had a discussion with Patrick Stewart about my favorite ST:TNG episode, which happened to be his as well. I've studied and written about a few original series episodes in a Human Rights class in Law School. I liked the reboot in general, though I too had some issues with certain things.
Well? Come on now. Watching Patrick Stewart now, as Sejanus in I Claudius. Stewart didn't change much in becoming Jean-Luc Picard, just wiped the smirk off his face and injected Picard with a bit of human crankiness (Sejanus is loathingly calculating and smooth).
And you're not telling us which one because...? Unless you're afraid of provoking epic bouts of nerd rage, which is understandable.