Comments on: Abrams: Moving The Date Not My Idea

By: Mike J. Hafezi

Mike J. Hafezi — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 03:16:33 +0000

I love J.J. Abrams, but I still have doubts about seeing this movie if I have to wait until next May.

By: Closettrekker

Closettrekker — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:14:38 +0000

#162–That is a good way to put it. I liked DS9 more than any of the other TNG-era spinoffs, but it still didn’t feel like Star Trek, despite being set in the Trek Universe.

By: S. John Ross

S. John Ross — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:15:24 +0000

#160: To be fair, Voyager felt like like a bad SNL parody of Star Trek even without DS9 as context. I honestly think that if you took some episodes of Voyager to an alternate history where Star Trek never existed in the first place, people would look at it and say “it seems like a bad SNL parody of some show that never existed … what a strange idea for a sketch.”

I’m among those that enjoy and admire DS9 as a groovy SF drama while mentally separating entirely from “Star Trek” per se … I consider it “another kind of drama entirely, set in the same universe as the Star Trek shows, and that bad SNL parody thing.”

By: Craig

Craig — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 21:46:41 +0000

#160 I personally prefer not to slam shows, I may dislike TOS and thing TVH was a waste of a movie but I think every fan has thier own favorite show, mine is VOY – Year of Hell, Scorpians, Latent Image, Living Witness, Message in a Bottle, Course Oblivion, Unimatrix Zero, Dark Frontier, Futures End… the list of classic episode goes on.

Personally I always found DS9 too Dark for Star Trek it still had some classic Star Trek moments, though as do all the series… even TOS :)

By: Shaun

Shaun — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 20:30:13 +0000

All I can say to people who didn’t like DS9 — watch the series over again. Tivo them late at night off of Spike (haphazard scheduling, but it’s worth it) or do the Netflix and watch ‘em all from the beginning. Every season had a few duds, but we can certainly say that about ALL the Treks. The plotting, character depth and social commentary was beyond anything any of the other Trek series did.

To me, at least, it’s remarkable how bland and stuffy TNG seemed after DS9 hit the air… And I love TNG! I also think that Voyager seemed like a bad SNL parody of Star Trek compared to what DS9 was doing. Even at its best, and I use that term loosely, VOY usually came off as TNG-lite.

Anyhow, if Colm Meaney would mean some kind of DS9 tie-in to a future Trek movie (not sure how that would work with the young neo-TOS cast, but whatever) I’d support that. As long as it was a good story that made sense, I would do backflips to see one or more of the DS9 crew in action again!

Someone else here mentioned that DS9 (and Voyager) should do direct to DVD movies. In the case of DS9, I’d be all for that. Something that can air on TV and be released on DVD. Perhaps a series of movies, or even a miniseries or two. Heck, more people watched DS9 than Firefly, and they somehow got a theatrical feature made… Why not DS9?

The only obstacle I can really see to this is the cost of rebuilding the sets, ships, station, etc. The Promenade set (incl. Quark’s Bar) alone would be astronomical…

By: craig

craig — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 20:11:19 +0000

#155 Yeah I agree if this is a prequel then it’s a waste of time, but I firmly believe this will be a alternate TOS crew in a TNG context ie. the 24th century or risk alienating the young 20something fans that this movie seems to want to target.

I mean ENT took four seasons for people to start taking interest in a pseudo past.

By: The Vulcanista

The Vulcanista — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:17:26 +0000

#155

I feel your pain. However and unfortunately, corporate greed is what makes this corner of the universe go around.

Try to look at the bigger picture: If Trek does as well at the box office in May as the corporate overlords at Paramount seem to think it will, that means at least 2 more Trek movies will be greenlit for production. And remember that if Trek makes the obscene amount of money that, say, Transformers made in box office and DVDs, just think of all the money Paramount will be throwing JJ’s way for future productions of Trek.

Peace. Live long and prosper.
The Vulcanista }:-|

By: S. John Ross

S. John Ross — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:51:39 +0000

I personally share feelings with both #155 _and_ #156. I remain hopeful for both the quality and success of the film, but I also felt my building excitement drain several months along the calendar … and a re-built excitement is never quite the same (hopefully I won’t be quoting that line next spring as a movie review).

By: Closettrekker

Closettrekker — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:11:56 +0000

#155–You may indeed not be the only one who feels that way, but there are just as many of us who are now more confident in the film’s potential, as Paramount obviously is! The important thing is that fans are excited in May of 2009.

By: John from Cincinnati

John from Cincinnati — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:59:51 +0000

Again, (I will keep posting- in spite of your attempts of removing my posts), I have lost ALL excitement for this new Star Trek movie since they moved the release date to 2009 all in the name of CORPORATE GREED and at expense of the fans. You can tell just by the number of posts on these articles that the excitement was reaching a fever pitch until the release date changed. I don’t think I’m the only one that has lost excitement over this movie. Again, maybe it will pick up again at the end of this year as we get closer.