how? it made trekkies turn away at the door and dragged in people who would never like strar trek. it brought in the transformers audience, not the carl sagan audience

not trying to be a jerk here, but what social commentary did you find in the ST09. I know its a set up of new players on a new field, so social commentary was likely not top priority.

But with my post #4, I was trying to suggest that Mr. Abrams and company could spin a yarn that came with a social commentary aspect, that The Great Bird himself would be proud of.

Cheers,
Rob

Get off your high horses folks. I am allowed to have an opinion as much as the next person. I enjoyed the new movie, but did not love it. I particularily enjoyed the new actors and what they brought to their roles. However, I was ruminating on all the “whiz-bang” action for sake of having “whiz-bang” action. Take the ice planet scene for example. Giant, improbable monsters chase Kirk for one reason alone, “whiz-bang” action. There was some really nice interplay between Spock Prime and Kirk. In particular, when Kirk asked about his father in the other timeline. That was good stuff.

@52, is this your own personal forum? Do you know me enough to judge from a far, in the safety if internet anonimity? Is Xai your real name? I posted my opinions, with my real name, on this topic on a website that I frequently visit and very often enjoy. What a poor, poor display of tolerance for other peoples opinions, or maybe you just wanted some attention?

For the most part, Kirk and company spent their time rescuing stunted societies from their imprisoning dogma, whether it be religious as in “The Apple” or societal as in “Return of the Archons”. As previously mentioned, “Who Mourns for Adonais” stated that humans had outgrown their need for Gods – who were once again merely space travelers with funky gadgets.

Similarly TNG continued this condescending view of religion in “Who Watches the Watchers” in a particularly egregious moment where Picard angrily referring to the Mintakan’s religion as ridiculous superstition, and then actually finds himself worshipped by these primitive proto-Vulcan simpletons as a diety known as “The Picard.” His trying to explain that he is not a God plays like a scene from “The Life of Brian”.

And for the record, McFarland gave two much credit to Roddenberry for “Best of Both Worlds”, written by Rick (hiss) Berman and “Family”, written by Ron (frak!) Moore. Even though Robbenberry gets credit for creating venue, he was only in full charge of the first season. He missed out on the second due to the WGA writers strike in 1988, and after returning for season 3, his health had declined and forced him to turn over the reins to Berman and Michael Piller.