Star Trek has a hit movie and Star Wars has a crappy TV show... has the world gone topsy turvy?!
My thoughts on the new Trek Movie - it was awesome. Exceeded all my expectations, a great movie. But there is also sadness, since this movie also burns 40+ years of Trek history that I love. YES, the movie gives fans the bone that it's an alternative timeline and not actually changing history, but that doesn't matter. The Classic Trek universe (TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY) is dead. Paramount won't be going back to it. Imagine for all you comic fans, if they had cancelled the classic Marvel Universe when they came up with Ultimate Spider-man. Ultimate Spidey is great but...I grew up with classic Marvel U and I love it, even though lately it has gotten pretty sucky.
So while this is a great movie, I will still miss the real Star Trek. The movie's not without flaws of course... Nimoy felt to me to give the weakest performance of the cast, or of his career....Uhura was a totally useless character who added nothing to the movie...and overall it was all action with no real substance or meaning. But it was so good and so much fun I can look past the problems.
Go see it if you haven't!
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It be cool if this somehow leads to a crossover film or something.
I certainly don't think that they will let the original universe die. At least they shouldn't. This would be an bad decision not only towards the fans but also comercially. With the new movies coming out many people who only wathced these will become interested in ST and probably watch the previous shows and movies as well and then they'll probably demand a new show in the actual universe. If there'll be an new ST series I don't think someone would like to let it take place in the alternate Reality. I mean I know how SW Clone Wars is and if there would be an new ST show wich would take place in the AR then it would certainly be like this (JJ Abrams stated that his movies are supposed to be more like SW then ST). And this would be horrible. And it would take the chance to give fanservice in form of quest appearences of former Trek actors for example Brent Spiner kicking ass as fully restored Data now with full emotions (I'm sure hew ould like to play Data completly Badass since he stated that he was dissapointed that the writers turned his ideas for Datas caharacter development down back then).
Star Trek was always about working together, overcome differnces, discuss important ethical topics and do space action stuff. Basicly being nice, talk alot and blow up ships. But the JJ Abrams movies are only about the space action, even the science stuff is missing (red matter, what is that anyway? Was dark matter sold out?), wich is not that bad, but theres something missing. This makes the movie pretty generic.