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Originally Posted by NewOldPlayer
The reason Star Trek II 100% sucked: It was not original.
Star Trek I took the original series and shaped it in a new direction. Gave it a rebirth. Introduced all the main characters so anybody watching it for the first time could discover how great it is. They not only gave us a new start, but the movie itself had a great original storyline and plot. It created a new paradigm by taking all the original story and characters from Star Trek the series and launched it all into a new direction. Exciting, original, brilliant and fun to watch.
Now, New Star Trek is off and running with a great new solid start. A great cast and a team of the best special effects creators at the helm, they are ready to launch us all into the unknowns of space, which is the whole point of Star Trek, the mission into deep space, to contact alien life with all of us exploring the universe together. Love Star Trek! They now have an entire universe to explore and take us along for the ride....to show us things we've never seen before...how amazing is that? I just can't wait to see where we go next....Can't wait for Star Trek II !!
So, where did they take us?
They walked us over to the vault and pulled out the old "Khan" script and thought, "This was a hit, let's just reboot it" and the meeting started to buzz: "ooh, let's be really creative and make Khan a blue eyed white boy instead...and while we're at it, give the Klingons blue eyes too! People just love blue eyes in movies, oh, and let's have Kirk die in the end, instead of Spock!! OMG! What a clever twist!! We are so smart and talented! Who needs an original script? All the die hard fans will love it! Who doesn't like Khan? This is going to be a great Star Trek movie."
They had the entire universe to explore, and all the money needed for production to make it happen, and all we get is a fucking RE RUN of a movie that was already made??? Seriously??? A fucking reboot??
Is that what Star Trek is all about now? A fast food franchise turning out the same fucking burgers and fries?? No new stories? No new adventures? No new places to go in the universe? Nothing new to sink our brains into? Just another fucking reboot????
Star Trek II represents a complete failure in film making and a failure to grasp the concept of Star Trek. The producers took a brilliant launch of the franchise and buried it by turning it into a simple reboot of an already popular motion picture, Wrath of Khan. When true Star Trek fans plunked down $15 for a ticket, we wanted to see and deserved to see a NEW Star Trek film, instead all we got was a lame reboot made by people with no imagination and no concept of originality.
Remember this?
To boldly go where no man has gone before...
Now all we get is:
To sadly go where we have already been before.
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You realize that what we are seeing is an alternate reality of the original Star Trek Universe, right? The stories and the character of the original movies have to remain and have to follow the same or similar stories.
What makes the new Star Trek movies interesting is the constraint that the new universe places on the writers. In the original movie, reality becomes altered because of Spock's time travelling. It almost breaks up the friendship of the crew but somehow, they find each other again. Time isn't fixed, and we're not back to the original reality at all. The crew is together, but despite being in a new reality the crew should still experience the same events of the star trek movies, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, etc.... just slightly different as they did with new Star Trek 2.
I hope they keep making more Trek movies. I'd love to see what they do with "The Voyage Home". A Time Travel movie within this alternative Universe should be cool.
On that note, I have been watching Star Trek : Enterprise on Netflixx. It is really, really good. By far, the best episode is part 1 of "In a Mirror, Darkly" - WOW! Captain Archer & Crew play their evil selves from the evil universe of the original TOS Trek, meet up with the Tholians, and find a starship from the original TOS "Good" Universe. Fucking awesome mind-bending fun. And this:
sigh...