Comments on: Abrams: Next Star Trek Needs To Be ‘Most Meaningful’ – But Not Called ‘Star Trek 2′

By: JMD

JMD — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:28:10 +0000

Wrath of Khan
Voyage Home
Undiscovered Country
Star Trek
First Contact
The Motion Picture
Search For Spock
Insurrection
Generations
Nemesis
The Final Frontier

By: CarlG

CarlG — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:14:39 +0000

@185: Wise choice. I’ve never spent an entire movie mentally screaming “You deserve BETTER!” at the entire cast. It’s quite the experience.

By: Closettrekker

Closettrekker — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:29:54 +0000

#185—I didn’t even know there was another TNG movie coming out until it had been in the theater for a couple of weeks. I never saw a trailer at all.

Like the other TNG movies, I watched Nemesis on one of the movie channels.

I never bothered to see any of those movies in the theater.

By: S. John Ross

S. John Ross — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:28:34 +0000

#183: “The script sucked and everybody knew it. The director was unsuited for science fiction, and everybody knew it. The final movie sucked, and everybody knew it.”

To this day, all I know is that the trailer did not appeal to me at all, because I stopped there. :)

By: Son of a Maui Portagee

Son of a Maui Portagee — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:08:22 +0000

180.

You obviously have not been exposed to the experienced producer Mel Brooks’ commentary to the contrary in his several productions of his THE PRODUCERS.

By: Lando

Lando — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:28:44 +0000

180. They knew while filming that Nemesis was going to be the last TNG movie. They were dismantling the major sets even during filming. Had Nemesis been a success, there would have been a demand for a sequel. But since Paramount wanted to get rid of Berman, they made sure the movie bombed. The script sucked and everybody knew it. The director was unsuited for science fiction, and everybody knew it. The final movie sucked, and everybody knew it.

By: Lando

Lando — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:25:43 +0000

You mean the hardcore nerd fans freaked out in their basements and the normal people living under the sun didn’t care for it, no matter what it was called.

By: Leo

Leo — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:29:48 +0000

It would be a mistake by Abrams to not include “Star Trek” in the title. Rick Berman tried it with Enterprise and people freaked out.

By: P Technobabble

P Technobabble — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:35:50 +0000

146.
You mentioned several times that Paramount should be looking for a “great script,” but I wonder how on Earth one actually knows something that is entirely subjective. What I think of as “great” may be entirely different than what you think of as “great,” and there are sure to be plenty of others who might either agree or disagree with us, and so forth.

No writer, producer, director, or studio sets out to make a bomb. Everyone always works to the best of their ability to create something that (hopefully) many people will like. If the movie is a huge hit, does that inherently mean there was a “great script,” or if the movie was a flop does that inherently mean the script wasn’t “great?” I’m not sure how one comes to determine what makes something great other than one really liking it… If you didn’t like something, you wouldn’t tend to say it was great anyway… It’s a purely subjective matter, IMO.

By: 790

790 — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:47:53 +0000

No Flashbacks to the last film, No Flashbacks!!!!!!!!!! ;-O