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.