Comments on: Orci Drops Trek 2 Character Hints

By: Kang the Unbalanced

Kang the Unbalanced — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 17:43:00 +0000

Deep Space 9 went against most of what Roddenberry wanted, what with clandestine organizations within Starfleet, a militarized Starfleet, full-scale space war which he felt glorified violence, and worst of all, long complex story arcs instead of purely episodic television.
Enterprise went ‘retro’ (although in this case ‘backwards’ and ‘retarded’ also fit quite nicely). They did spend much of the run being pointless and lacking imagination, though the fourth season tried hard to right the wrongs.
In short these heinous crimes were already perpetrated well before Abrams and those knuckleheads became involved.
The rehashing in this case is to show events that had not been seen before, such as Kirk’s (admittedly alternate) youth, and everyone else but Spock’s time in the Academy. It also gave an opportunity to explore the characters from different
I don’t claim the movie’s perfect, in fact if you’ve been on this site enough you know my problems with it. However I do think it is perfectly good Trek; not the best by a good shot, but better than we’ve had in some time.

By: John Long

John Long — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 16:21:00 +0000

So is Cuberbatch going to be Gary Mitchel? Is there going to be a Gary Mitchel? The question hasn’t been answered.

By: Kang the Unbalanced

Kang the Unbalanced — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 14:46:00 +0000

Thank you for stating your point a little more clearly thank “it sucks”. If you had said that in the first place instead of just “it sucks”, you probably would not have been bludgeoned like a baby seal.

By: Guest

Guest — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 09:03:00 +0000

I am most definitely not burnt out of Trek. I continue to watch TNG and DS9. If the reboot gets new to people to watch the older Treks than great, but for me the reboot lost what made Trek Trek. I know I seem to be in a small minority….

By: Ensignahkinum

Ensignahkinum — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 06:49:00 +0000

My guess is they did not make it for you Guest. You sound like your burnt out on Star Trek and it is time for you to move on to something else you feel does not suck. Star Trek is new to thousands of people each year. I myself, did not start watching Star Trek until 1991, TNG. I had a lot of fun watching TNG unfold, going back to the TOS episodes and discovering Kirk and Crew, Happy for DS9, Super happy for VOY, then the TNG movies…and so on. For me, I can just imagine right now, how many people seen the new Star Trek and are now on Netflix or Amazon, watching all the Star Trek series back to back. How fun it would have been for me to have all Star Trek in one place, watch one after another, wow, and fives series and bunch of movies to fill me up :O)

By: Guest

Guest — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 02:12:00 +0000

My apologies for my bitterness. I have been a Trek fan for a long time and for me the reboot was not Trek at all, just a poorly written Sci-fi action film. The music and the acting were done well overall. My wife also loved it and she is also not a sci fi fan either.

By: Mark Sutter

Mark Sutter — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 20:03:00 +0000

Question, Guest: are you aware that this is a Star Trek fansite of sorts? The new Star Trek movie was loved by a very large audience and even my wife, who is not a fan of Sci-Fi AT ALL, loved this enough to see it twice in the theater.

By: Guest

Guest — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 18:27:00 +0000

Saw it and hated it. I love Trek, but not the reboot.

By: Vejur

Vejur — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 17:17:00 +0000

Maybe he didn’t see it, but he’s right. What Abrams & Co did to Star Trek goes against everything what Roddenberry would have wanted. What use is a retro movie about the future? Why not go into a future that lies much farther ahead, in the 27th century or something like that?
Rehashing things that have been is pointless and proves a lack of imagination

By: Bertwre

Bertwre — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 16:43:00 +0000

In the new Trek Comic they explore the Mictchell character, the deal was is that stories in the comic would only use character not in the next movie. In the new timeline Sally Kellerman character Dr. Elizabeth Dehner was not on the Enterprise when the events of Where no Man has gone before take place…