That’s not to say Star Trek XI needs to be so straight forward that it lacks creativity and flexibility key to a good storyline.

However, realistically (and fortunately for the prospective screenwriter(s)) TOS provides a roadmap to a potentially great back story.

The biggest mistake would be not only to ignore characterization, but common sense elements like costume, props andsetting.

However, I think it’s okay to ignore Spock smiling in the early incarnations of TOS because his lack of emotion had yet to be established…I can’t wait to see how this all turns out!

Everyone seems to think XI is going to be all about Kirk’s beginnings and life up to becoming captain of the Enterprise. But, if the blue is any indication, wouldn’t that also point to a beginning for Spock, and, perhaps, McCoy?

Everyone from TOS had a history that abruptly began on the show. I wouldn’t mind seeing a movie that showed all of these tangents (Scott’s and Uhura’s also maybe?) coming to a final “nexus” (sorry) aboard the Enterprise as Captain Kirk takes the helm from Captain Pike in a change of command ceremony.

You think?

TOS was good but i think ENT showed that you just can’t go backwards! Let Kirk rest in peace….

My first guess of what the new movie would have been about or perhaps i was kinda wishing was the the cast of VOY and TNG get together and fight out an all on assult of the Borg on the Alpha quadrant. With the help of the United Federation of Planets they once and for all defeat the Borg.

I will probably watch Star Trek XI but like ENT probalby wont enjoy it as much as the other series.

What I mean:
I don’t want to see Vulcans or Romulans with those Neanderthal brow ridges, and I hope we don’t see Klingons, unless we see them in the original series makeup. Seeing “New” Klingons in an “Old” Trek will just hurt my poor little brain.

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I don’t hate TNG – indeed I watched all but one episode of it – but I was ultimately disappointed with it because it was lacking so much of what I liked in the original Star Trek. I view TNG more as a spin-off-cum-remake of ST:TMP and The Cage than a spin-off of Star Trek TOS and its subsequent films. And one of the criticisms of TMP was that it missed so much of what people liked in TOS.

It’s not to say that that’s bad, but some people were definitely disappointed – unfortunately some people take this further than others. For all we know, TNG will have a resurgence in popularity in years to come. But I’m afraid it’s horses for courses: there’ll always be someone who likes one or other show better, because in a sense they’re different fans of utterly different shows that happen to have a shared heritage.

To some, after all Berman’s years running the franchise, there’s a kind of feeling like a liberating army has come in and overthrown a dictator. That’ll pass in a while and things will probably level out. And if you’ve been reading mainstream sites across the web the last few years, you’ll know there’s been a lot of dissatisfaction, anger and betrayal felt by a lot of fans towards Berman and Braga and their ilk for a long time.

The abuse will probably stop, but to me, it’s like fandom’s in the process of lancing a boil. Rather than gripe about it, maybe it’s better to let certain people get the bile out of their system (which I kinda have the last few weeks!!)