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Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate
I hated the new movie. Absolutely hated it.
TOS never happened. The timelines are gone .... with no Romulus and no Vulcan the timelines would be so screwed, TNG, DS9, Voyageur all likely never happened and certainly not the way that they did. Without the Romulans helping in the alliance against the Dominion, humanity is likely wiped out.
I think this was Abrahms took this as an opportunity to take out everything that Roddenberry made and throw it into the trash. All that never happened... Roddenberry is dead and so is everything he did.
Now maybe I sound too much like:
http://www.theonion.com/content/vide...star_trek_film
But this new timeline thing says "Hey, I can't be bothered respecting the storyline that the old-time trekkies know and love, so I'm gonna piss on them, say that everything that they love is false and take the easy way out all the way to the bank."
But MOST of all, this is a sell-out movie. Read this Newsweek article:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/196005
In this movie, there was no debate as to where we draw the lines on rights as there was with Data or the Doctor. There was no discussion of when we should interfere in the problems of another society. There was no moral on tolerance and the acceptance of others. Perhaps Sulu *should* have been gay. And married. That at least would have been something in the vein of Roddenberry. But yeah, there were lots of explosions and, well, more explosions.
Abrahms has taken all the great things that Roddenberry did in Star Trek and whored it out like he did Uhura. |
Nerd.
I said the moment after seeing it the only person I could envision not liking this movie would be the types who could be irate over a ship being numbered incorrectly.
Give it a rest about the timeline.
What does it do? Invalidate the previous films, shows and stories?
It's an offshoot.
Putting it in a different timeline just makes it a new dimension. Reality deviates off course with this film, and it in no way invalidates anything previously.
It was fun, and refreshing.
I don't get this angle at all. You sound like you would have been better served playing with figures at home like you were that angry star trek cloud from Futurama.
"HA! You can't alternate the official time line! Episode B-14 cleary says so. Loser!"