I agree completely. I was so excited at the prospect of new Star Trek at the time, and ended up extremely disappointed. It took awhile after “Farpoint” to get me to watch again, but it never became anything more to me than just ok. The only episode of TNG now that I will go out of my way to watch is “Yesterday’s Enterprise”. The rest of it never grabbed me, and I never again got my expectations that high for “new Star Trek”.

While I actually found ENT to be very entertaining (especially the “shout outs” to TOS), and admired the last couple of seasons of DS9, it’s still not really Star Trek to me without Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and Scotty…

Will Wheaton is entitled to his opinions, but I’m not obligated to agree with them. Aside from the abyssmal STV, I’m not sure what he has a problem with in the original Star Trek films.

Jar Jar was the thing people hated about Ep.1 and Wesley is the thing people hated about TNG.

Sure, it was a bit of a kick in the nuts to long time Star Wars fans. However, how can HE say that????

He was involved in the re-boot of the Star Trek franchise, TNG. THAT show (especially seaons 1-3) were a HUGE disappointment to a lot of Trek fans at the time. I remember walking away from “Farpoint” thinking, “what have they done?!?!?”. It was, to me, a much bigger disappointment than Phantom Menace.

Now I see TNG and Episodes I-III as comfortable parts of the whole franchise. Not the best parts mind you, but important ones. But the first 3 seasons of TNG are still (largely) unwatchable. That’s not all Wil Wheaton’s fault…..but it’s pretty ironic that he’s casting stones at other franchises.

While I have to admit a certain amount of jelousy and envy at the time, since I was not fling the ship and he was, I chalked it up to the producers at the time trying to draw in a younger crowd, and I could try to suspend my disbelief by trying to convince myself that he was in some kind of ROTC program or something.

However, after having gone to a convention where I had a free moment to spare, and he was giving a talk at the time, I decided to give him a moment of my time… and boy was I surprised at how well he spoke and presented himself!

Not only was this kid a grownup now, but he was very well articulated, and he addressed some of the issues that he had to face at such a young age, including the whole “kill Wesley” campaign, and his relationships, or lack there of, with other cast members, both past and present.

Bottom line… he did the best he could with what was given to him at the time. It certainly wasn’t his fault he was given the hand that was dealt to him, yet he made the best of it! He is a huge fan of sci-fi in general, and Star Trek in particular, and I have to say that he impressed me more than I can say, and made a believer out of me that day, and I have been a fan ever since! I wish he’d have been given a better role, and a better set of circumstances to deal with, and things might have been better for him and Wesley, but they are what they are, and yet he he made a fan out of me.

I’d love to have a chance to see him again someday! Quite a talented young man!

They might not make them Red if they are not there ;-)

Actually, I wonder what color they were in The Cage?

The bold reds and blues were not present in The Cage the way they were in Where No Man Has Gone Before and later…

Closettrekker, good points all.

Part of the fun, even before the movie comes out, is in the speculation.

I don’t know about everyone else, but I’m having a blast guessing, from everything we see and hear from the Supreme Court and the Cast/Crew, what things will be like in this movie.

What will be the same? What will be different? What kind of homages to the Original Series might we get? How will the new actors portray our beloved icons? How will our favourite Constitution Class Heavy Cruiser look?

Robert Wise wasn’t an “original Trekker”, and neither was Nick Meyer. As far as Trek goes, JJ is a TWOK fan, and that’s fine with me. It’s more of a Trek background than Meyer or Wise had prior to directing a Star Trek feature film. As for Trek credibility, it’s probably more important that the writers have it than Abrams, and Orci and Kurtzman have that credible fan background. If the movie flops, it won’t be because of that.

And although I completely agree that SW and ST are completely different animals, what exactly does the term “Star Wars image” mean to you? Don’t get me wrong…I’m a Star Trek fan first and foremost…but a little bit of mainstream appeal will not, in itself, hurt Star Trek. Better action scenes? Groundbreaking special effects? If JJ adds a touch of that, as expected, it won’t make OR break the film. It still has to be a good tale, and the director still has to get a believable performance out of the cast and set a good storytelling tempo.

It really won’t matter much to the long term future of the ST franchise if a few old canonite fogies get upset because the Enterprise bridge has a different color on the hand railing…What matters most is that a new and younger audience (like my kids) gives the iconic characters of classic Trek a good look. That is the demographic that will make Paramount’s investment a successful one— or a failure.

So, (within reason, of course) canon be damned!

Mr. Pascale, are you going to be present at Comic-Con this year?

If so, I hope you’re on one of the panels.

Also, I wonder if CBS is doing anything for Star Trek: Remastered?

Or perhaps, if there is a Debriefing on the project of some kind?

My list:
1.) First Contact
2.) The Wrath of Kahn
3.) The Undiscovered Country
4.) The Voyage Home
5.) The Search for Spock
6.) Insurrection
7.) Generations
8.) The Final Frontier
9.) The Motion Picture
10.) Nemesis

The most of the TOS movies are great. TWOK is superior entertainment (even if the movie is 26 years old by now). TUC is a real polit thriller and TVH is funny, but the humor is changing from decade to decade (for me). I like the dialogs from the crew more than the visual humor. The story from TSFS is a bit silly, but the most parts are excellent. In no other movie you get to see the huge spacedock and the feeling how big and powerfull starfleet really is. TMP is boring, even after the 101st time. It don’t get better. TFF is silly, crazy, with lame SFX, but – again- the dialogs of the crew are superb and really funny (that’s why it’s better than TMP and NEM).

FC is the only really successfull TNG movie and as this far, the best of all Star Trek movies. It combines the very best elements of Star Trek in around 115 minutes and has a great visual conception and this far the best SFX of all Star Trek movies. But GEN and INS are two entire different things. The story from GEN is desastrous. The Nexus is as lame as it is stuipid. The Enterprise-B sequenzes are far too short and Harriman had his worst day. The destruction of the Enterprise-D is laughable (not the saucer-crash but the space battle). The Duras-sisters are a waste. And the final of als desasters: They killed Kirk. Well, one day the Captain of all Captains have to die. When not in battle, then in his bed ’cause of very old age (150 or so). Killing him in a huge battle, saving the entire universe… Okay, everyone could life with that I gues. But killing him, because he’s falling from a bridge? Man, that’s xxxxx! But I like the ligting and the look of that movie and, beside of all that mistakes, it is entertaining and for the most parts not boring. INS suffers from the same problem as GEN and all other TNG movies: It’s the team behind the cameras: TV producers, TV writers, TV directors and at last a lousy budget in comparsion to other potential blockbusters. INS is boring, the humor don’t suit the movie’s theme and the action sequenzes are… well… what action sequenzes? I think INS would have played out well as a season’s finale of the TV-show, but it’s not really a thing you would like to see on the big screen. That makes one think Berman & Co just had luck with FC.

I could say enough about Nemesis to fill a book. But for general: I don’t like it’s greenish look, the SFX look to much like CGi, Shinzon is the most boring and lame enemy ever in Trek and the director did everything but a decent job. In short: It’s a DESASTER. But I like it more when I saw it on DVD…

So, I hope that J.J.’s Star Trek will capture the dimension a movie need when it runs on the big screen. I hope the story is intelligent, the plot twists are clever and the actors are not made from wood. Let’s hope for May 09.

Buzz: Wheaton’s performance as a party guest in Nemesis has no bearing on th crapiness of Nemesis.