For what it's worth - It is fun and enjoyable. It's even, IMO, Star Trek. It bears about the same resemblance to TOS as the Gold Key comics did. (Not a judgment of quality, just of contrast.) There are things that ring true, even things I wouldn't have thought of. There are things that seem to have been changed just for the hell of it, because no one but us would notice, "because we can" - I admit those bug me.
I've heard people comparing it to the BSG reboot, but I reject that comparison - let's face it, BSG 78 was goofy. (It was also at least 50% ripoffs of then-current movies and older Westerns by volume.) TOS could be, sometimes intentionally (Trouble with Tribbles, I Mudd), sometimes unintentionally/in hindsight, but there's not that same level of contrast in tone. It doesn't need to be remade to be serious and of higher writing quality... nor does the new movie do so, again IMO.
The bit about time travel changing everything is no more than a convenient excuse, one that doesn't hold up to any scrutiny - if that were the point of divergence, the Kelvin's bridge should have looked like Pike's Enterprise. Nero can't change anything until he actually arrives. It's really just a continuation of what ENT did, and you're welcome to lay the blame at the feet of the Temporal Cold War if you like.
I will note, however, that this sort of retcon is hardly new - consider the first movie, where Gene finally got a makeup and costume budget and changed the whole look of the Klingons while declaring they'd always looked like that. Fans and the shows danced around that one for years before ENT finally gave us an official explanation in its only decent season. Some felt we shouldn't even try, just go with it.
It sucks to be on the losing side of history and generational change. But here we are. And we do still have our DVDs. Even if we never see anything else from that other universe (as seems very likely), we still have what we've always had.
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Date: 2009-05-14 08:03 pm (UTC)It is fun and enjoyable. It's even, IMO, Star Trek.
It bears about the same resemblance to TOS as the Gold Key comics did. (Not a judgment of quality, just of contrast.)
There are things that ring true, even things I wouldn't have thought of. There are things that seem to have been changed just for the hell of it, because no one but us would notice, "because we can" - I admit those bug me.
I've heard people comparing it to the BSG reboot, but I reject that comparison - let's face it, BSG 78 was goofy. (It was also at least 50% ripoffs of then-current movies and older Westerns by volume.) TOS could be, sometimes intentionally (Trouble with Tribbles, I Mudd), sometimes unintentionally/in hindsight, but there's not that same level of contrast in tone. It doesn't need to be remade to be serious and of higher writing quality... nor does the new movie do so, again IMO.
The bit about time travel changing everything is no more than a convenient excuse, one that doesn't hold up to any scrutiny - if that were the point of divergence, the Kelvin's bridge should have looked like Pike's Enterprise. Nero can't change anything until he actually arrives. It's really just a continuation of what ENT did, and you're welcome to lay the blame at the feet of the Temporal Cold War if you like.
I will note, however, that this sort of retcon is hardly new - consider the first movie, where Gene finally got a makeup and costume budget and changed the whole look of the Klingons while declaring they'd always looked like that. Fans and the shows danced around that one for years before ENT finally gave us an official explanation in its only decent season. Some felt we shouldn't even try, just go with it.
It sucks to be on the losing side of history and generational change. But here we are. And we do still have our DVDs. Even if we never see anything else from that other universe (as seems very likely), we still have what we've always had.