I’ve got to admit that the space scenes are very impressive, but I don’t know if I like the new “vision.” And what’s up with that bridge design? It looks like a set from Galaxy Quest; a parody of a Star Trek set. It’s just too bright, and has too many damn lamps! I’m still going to reserve judgement until I’ve actually seen the movie. I’ll give it a chance. What really concerns me though is that Star Trek is first a TV show, and then a movie second. I just can’t see how a movie franchise alone can keep Star Trek alive. It might look like Star Trek, but it won’t BE Star Trek without it being a television series.
I’m not sure I agree. I’m not a die-hard Trek fan, but I could care less if there is a TV show or not. I’d much rather see a grand story on an epic scale every 3-5 years than a 1 hour watered down episode each week for 13 – ~20 weeks a year. TV is not what it once was and isn’t where excitement happens any longer (at least for me and I think many others). That being said, there were some damn good Star Trek episodes over the years, but I would say the best were a minority and most were average.
This looks somewhat interesting and fresh so I’m willing to give it a chance. I hope it will be more Khan and less Voyage Home 🙂
Ah yes, but see you said you’re not a Star Trek fan. That by itself means that you’re not a fan of what Trek truly is, but a fan of the movies which were basically action movies designed to compete with Star Wars, and later to continue the ST-TNG franchise. I argue that it’s the movies that are watered down, not the TV series. Star Trek was social commentary wrapped in scifi to make it palatable. The movies are just action flicks.
No I said I wasn’t a die hard fan 🙂 I’ve probably seen most of the original series and TNG, but after that…not much worth watching. I would say there hasn’t been an episode that was true social commentary in at least 20 years. Nothing past TNG was even worth watching. The movies had more heart and message than the remaining TV shows could muster…
I suppose a new TV show could surprise me and be something special, but that is a bet I would never make in Vegas 😉
DS9 had social commentary out the ying-yang, as did TNG. Voyager was crap, but Enterprise started to bring Star Trek back to what it was until the network got involved and f’ed it up again. As far as the movies go, TNG movies had no social commentary at all (and the popular ones were terrible ST films. See First Contact). The original cast movies had much more social commentary – ST4 and 6 for example. This new Star Trek looks like every other action flick pretending to be SciFi these days. Like I said, I’ll go see it and maybe I’ll eat these words. But I doubt it.