Reminder What Star Trek is all about. Part 1 of 2

The new movie (Star Trek XI) seems to have amnesia to what was Roddenberry's original goal and vision of Star Trek. They even found a way to excuse the amnesia by creating the alternative timeline plot. As Spock said to Mc Coy in a mind meld before he died in Star Trek 2, "the wrath of Khan", "REMEMBER!" What are we forgetting that is worth carrying on from the legacy before?

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Star Trek: Beyond the Final Frontier is a documentary about the 40-year history of Star Trek and an auction of Star Trek props released by Paramount PicturesThe documentary aired on February 19, 2007 and March 3, 2007 on The History Channel.

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[joeylodes]

would give my left nut to see The Wrath of Khan in the theater again

(ps ... jj's new 'trek' made me sick)

[MsOliviaGarden]

Thank you for the documentary! What shocked me most about the JJ Trek movie is that it has got so many positive reviews. I highly suspect that JJ and Paramount have bribes those critics to muffle the voices of those who genuinely in love of Star Trek.

[MrSchultzstaffel]

@charlesvan13 So they green-light re-makes of other people's ideas that don't need to be re-made so that they can bank on existing name recognition and effectively run the concept into the ground for a fast buck! Movies are no longer made for the fans in so much as they are made for the approval of the "inside Hollywood crowd." The fans petitioned JJ Abrams for what they wanted and he angrily rejected their pleas and was determined to ram his ideas down their throats "if they wanted it or not."

[MrSchultzstaffel]

@charlesvan13 The trouble is not only that Hollywood has a habit of ruining good ideas, but that there are also hundreds of excellent ideas that are ready, willing and available to be made into movies and TV shows as we speak, but there is absolutely no will to do so what so ever because it's considered politically incorrect, there's no political message to the project, the initial idea wasn't posed by the relatives of the studio heads, it's unsolicited material or the profits would be shared.

[charlesvan13]

@MrSchultzstaffel

I never watched the new Star Trek movie. I could tell it was just a dumb action flick.

Hollywood has a habit of ruining good ideas. I never saw the Mission Impossible movies, because they did the same thing to a good tv show.

[MrSchultzstaffel]

JJ Abrams effectively killed the old Star Trek in favor of his served-up, fast-food version that totally stinks on ice! JJ Abrams has nothing but total contempt for the original fans and was determined to shove his fast-buck, plastic concept down their throats if they wanted it or not. Fan's have petitioned the studio for years about what they really want to see in Star Trek, so it's not like the studio heads don't know; they just don't care. JJ's "Trek" has had it's 15 minutes....and it's up.

[neonknights]

Abrams and his hack writers turned Star Trek into a Michael Bay popcorn CGI action movie for kids. They forgot what Star Trek was really about. I don't mind action - but while Trek had it's share of it, the messages were it's core. Well, at least the new movie was better than Enterprise. But that says nothing, as Enterprise was a load of crap.

[Dimitri0809]

Star trek isn't the best depiction of factual future reality but it's close.

[yetanothertubeuser]

@sondano Don't forget that it's another Spock from another timeline ... Why don't you just take it as a movie, and not as annals.

[sondano]

@OTmikhail except it has shitty actors and stupid tricks like the Spock/Uhura thing in the turbolift and the transporter room. And throwing Kirk out of the ship yeah right that's our Spock indeed. Hello?

[OTmikhail]

you guys are all nuts with your comments. The new Trek movie was fantastic, great way to bring us back to the original and now have free reign to do whatever they want instead of being restricted by the trek canon. I think the "alternate" trek is more like our own future than the 60's version.

[joeylodes]

The bottom line is that … Nick Meyer and Irvin Kershner (RIP) … who both ironically NEVER HAD ANY previous experience with science fiction … created THE definitive chapters in both the Trek and Star Wars universes, respectively. It's simply because they KNEW DRAMA! … and also knew that a 4 min and 20 sec fly-around of a ship … or digitally adding a thousand distracting images... does not add to this DRAMA … it ultimately TAKES AWAY from it!