Abrams' STAR TREK: Year One

Hard to believe nuTrek came out a year ago today.

Trek 2.0 came out Friday May 8th 2009.

Thoughts?

I can't tell you how my heart fills with joy at the sound of the crusty old Trekkies whining.

It has been one year since Abramstrek convinced millons of people that mindless action movies were the future of the Trek franchise.

It was essentially a feature length SNL parody with lots of things blowing up real good. And the only reason I didn't walk out of it in the middle of this debacle was the chance of seeing Leonard Nimoy on the screen one last time.

JJ Abrams needs to be kicked in the balls HARD.

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A good, albeit imperfect, restart to a franchise that was increasingly getting weighed down by the Borg collective of fanboi albatrosses.

2.0 will be even more Action Hero oriented than the first, with lots of skin and bare chests, and little to actually think about.

TOS Season 1 is still the best year of Trek out there.

Bulldog, I'm afraid you're viewing TOS through rose-colored glasses.

I blame it on the decline and fall of the American public education system. There's been a corresponding decline in appreciation of good television and movies.

I don't think it's that - we have, over the last few years, moved to an economy where we exercise our minds and not our bodies.

Previously we came home tired physically, but not mentally, so we enjoyed our minds being exercised.

Now we come home mentally tired, but not physically and entertainment reflects that.

Kirk was a baby daddy.

Since when?

If you cut down the nostalgia factor, I'll put such shows from the last 10-20 years as "The Sopranos," "The Wire," "The Shield," "24," "Lost," "Battlestar Galactica" and so forth up against just about any tv period.

Same with movies, most likely. For every "Citizen Kane" or "Casablanca," there were probably a dozen movies that were just blah.

Abrhams trek is better then bermaga trek by leaps and bounds.

I think the ratio is far greater than that.

Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd disagrees!

Because First Contact and Nemesis weren't mindless action movies?

No.

those were "mindless" "actionless" movies.

Something different entirely.

That's funny, because I saw a lot of scenes of shit blowing up and our favorite characters being mondlessly plot driven from on impossible situation requiring them to blow shit up to another impossible situation that required them to blow shit up, even with the situation at hand made no sense at all.

The space battle with the Borg in First Contact was over quicker than two 15 year old virgins having sex.

I thought that started with Insurrection...

And was followed up by the captain shooting it out in engineering, shooting it out in the holodeck, shooting it out in space, swinging on a vine, and duking it out in engineering.

Yeah, but that's what the captains of Federation starships are for!

Remember Ron Tracy VS James Kirk? USS Exeter VS USS Enterprise. That was Clash of the Titans, baby! Tracy might have been Kirk's biggest nemesis- a fellow starship captain gone bad! Nobody threw those karate CHOPS(!) like Ron Tracy!

I miss the Good Ole Days when the only STAR TREK was TOS & the TOS movies.

^I think you'll find the Good Ole Days when the only STAR TREK was 'The Cage'

It's all been downhill since they got rid of Shouty Spock

Star Trek: Original Series- Season One is almost inarguably the greatest single season of science fiction ever produced.

It has one that is ONE weak episode (The Alternative Factor).

Only the fourth season of Babylon-Five can come even close to making an argument.

I seriously think you a forgetting an awesome little show written and produced by a gentleman by the name of Rod Serling...

Before my time.

And when I say "science fiction" what I'm really saying is "space opera".

My days of not taking you seriously are coming to a middle.

The legend of Star Trek had a still born twin...
Try a new pilot. screws up almost all techno babble canon for all eternity.

this is my first ST memory as a 4 year old. I thought it lame then.

when he was 9, he sent them to the cornfield.

this was cool

not as cheesey as when it was recycled in TNG.

All this will happen again . this is the bad body double episode we make fun of.

Orion slave girls that are terran white chicks. Not getting started with the frontier brides aspect.

Maj wanted an ep, huh?

Recycled from a Twilight Zone episode...again. "The Enterprise discovers a planet exactly like Earth". a unique happening in all treks.

Yay.. mind melds become psychic flux capacitors for the first time.

Suspense, drama, and a Picard like ending with subtext. Not much too hate.

A two part clip show that if Spock wasn't executed for, he shoulda been at least busted a grade or two.

Not groundbreaking, but a good script.

history only quibbles over one line of dialogue.

Jefferson Starship Enterprise

Saved by a phaser battery

Q's your daddy? It's fun, but having had a DM that was rather Trelanish caused me to give up RPG's.

Iconic trek imagery. Meh costumes. Ripped shirt Shat.

there were a lot of people from the future in the late 60's it seems.

who is willing to fake his death, screw up his daughter mentally, and fuck over his otherwise best friend because he did the right thing 15 years ago? great motivation Ben.
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Prime Directive loophole not even required

If only the dwarf from Plato's step children were in this... I kid. Too much good as a story and for the trek universe to knock the usual flaws.

This is materialist society at it's most inane. They must be feeding the body of Landru uke:

Plant spores that "keep them in a placid state of happiness and contentment"? I don't need a starship to get that.

Because after this, there was never a battle with the Klingons again...

Flashback to the spores for this episode... it was simpler in that episode with the Riddler. And the dude has a goatee in both universes...confusing!

Harlen Ellison's fanfic gets Probed. Thus giving him the "i can do it better" myth to the point of B5. Which really wasn't that cerebral either.

Flying fake vomit isn't even as scary as the feral children chuckles in Miri.

Let's not even count how many 23rd century colonies fell under brutal dictatorships. How many techno contradictions and lack of consequences occur weekly. Or simply how many stories are nothing more than transpositions of other shows.

While it has it's great moments, the first season of ST was not great television or sci fi.