STMP I disliked as a child, but watching as an adult I see how ambitious it was. The production values and attention to detail are a degree above all trek films since. The story is if anything a bit too advanced, showing a future where brains trump phasers. This is the one film I rate higher as an adult than I did as a kid.

TWOK was my childhood favorite,but as an adult it feels like a cheap unpolished production. The editing was horrible, and the actors didn’t seem challenged. Its like the director only took one take of every scene and shot the whole thing in a week. While the overall story is epic, the dialog was more cliche than a Schwartzenhager film.

As for the other original cast shows: 3 was 2 without a good story. 4 was humorous in the 80s but not so much in 08. Five, a train wreck in every category. Six was a decent run but its cold war plot makes less sense a generation after the Berlin wall.

The TNG movies except nemisis are more contemporary and adult friendly however never quite epic. Of them only First Contact had a worthy script, the others had weak scripts. Nemisis is the only film with fewer redeeming qualities than Star Trek 5.

It just seems that at a tender age we sometimes remember things a little better than they were. It still speaks volumes that the stories were so endearing. But its clear when judged critically as films, not stories, these movies are not even close to Oscar material.

So in the end I’ll back up Mr. Wheaton’s statement that not all of the Trek Movies were all of that.

Tell you what: I’ll learn to read between the lines if you’ll learn to write more carefully. Deal? If not, you’ll have to work on your apologies.

Btw, love the moniker (Spock’s Brain). It is one of my favourite eps. It’s so bad it’s good.

Thanks for the note.

kg

I don’t need a copy of the script, or even a TV Guide synopsis of the plot.

Just show me the f#%king ship, the way she looks at the end of the movie. If she looks right, I’m there.”

Iron Man just came out. Trek’s a year away. They have different production teams, directors and media plan. As for IronMan getting more press before it’s release… I disagree. Trek has far more mentions and notice two years before it’s debut.
I don’t see where you think a rant like this does you, or any of us, any good. We are all frustrated and want to see more, but this insulting piece just makes fans look bad. You and I have no idea if this shows drastic change to Enterprise and in what context, but perhaps some patience is in order. Calm a little.. it’ll happen eventually.

IMO

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One problem we’re having with all the happy talk from JJ is that he’s talking mainly to the mundane press, not us, so his comments are aimed primarily at convincing them to come see this thing, not to keep us on the reservation. It’d probably help a bunch if he’d stop in somewhere and talk directly to us (trekmovie.com, trekbbs.com, wherever).

Another troubling bit is the g*ddamned secrecy. This isn’t Lost or Cloverfield, this is Star Trek, and we like our spoilers fresh and hot off the spies’ cameras and fax machines and we like a lot of ‘em. So far, all we’ve got is a teaser trailer with a bloated monstrosity posing as the Enterprise, that may or may not actually be from a more violent alternate timeline.

Y’see, some of us need certain assurances that this “reinvention” doesn’t result in about forty years’ worth of continuity getting flushed down the crapper just because someone thought the Enterprise needed a pair of big ginormous engines with the tailfins from a ‘58 Cadillac.

We already know who the cast is, so a group photo of them in uniform wouldn’t spoil anything, right?

And this is supposed to respect canon, so by all rights, the ship should look pretty much the same as she did during the run of the series, right?

SO WHY IN THE FLYING F&%K ARE WE NOT GETTING EVEN A TENTH OF THE KIND OF PUBLICITY THAT IRON MAN GOT!?!?!

I don’t need a copy of the script, or even a TV Guide synopsis of the plot.

Just show me the f#%king ship, the way she looks at the end of the movie. If she looks right, I’m there.

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As a follow up, I’d like to point out that we were getting early concept pictures of the Iron Man suit before Robert Downey, Jr. was even cast. About a year before the movie came out.

SO WHERE THE HELL ARE THOSE PICTURES OF THE ENTERPRISE!?!

I was spoofing the stereotypes of geeks. Remember the SNL skit where Shat told a roomful of Trekkies to ‘Get A Life”? Of course, there’s nothing wrong living with roommates, parents, working at Starbucks, or spending endless hours debating fictional characters (which I share with you all).

And I would’ve bet $$ that Katie G. is attached (I joked about it because who gives a hoot either way?) I DON’T HAVE A GIRLFRIEND. OMG!

I threw every stereotype, but the kitchen sink, into that long sentence as a humorous apology to Wil.

Try to develop a less literal sense of humor. So I do still recommend some of you read more. And I am not as good a writer as think I am.

Seacrest out!