Star Trek XI is a GO - Zachary Quinto confirmed as Spock!

Why aren't any people here OR in TBBS as excited about the movie?

After being burned badly the last two movies, I'm reserving judgement until I hear more.

I will say that I am liking what I'm hearing so far.

edited for accuracy

What are we supposed to get excited about?

We don't know anything about it, apart from the fact that Zachary Quinto and Leonard Nimoy are both going to play Spock.

The last two movies weren't that great, and it's basically some sort of TOS prequel or reboot. As I have stated countless times before, I think it's lazy to do prequels instead of setting stuff further in the future.

And setting stuff further in the future would suck donkey balls.

True, given that it has been shown most future Trek people have basically omipotent powers with their technology, it would be best to have a complete reboot and restart of the franchise.

And one more edit!

Only if B&B were running the movie. Otherwise, you are wrong.

Which is an excellent opportunity for storytelling.


(Edit: No, that's not sarcasm.)

Because the potential for this turning into nothing but a fanboy wank over kewl effects instead of a good story is there. So it's best to have a wait and see attitude.
Plus this is probably more of Paramount milking the franchise for all it's worth.

Yes, because B&B are the only two humans in the world that are capable of fucking up Star Trek.

Yes, you deserve Neg for that.

Re: Trek XI - Zachary Quinto virtually confirmed as Spock!

Be careful, otherwise Flashy might use this post as evidence in Flashy's Unwinnable War Against Wordforge and drugs too.

Bah. Even with Nimoy, the last couple Trek efforts have sucked so bad that my trust is mostly gone.

But ya never know . . .

But setting it in the future makes it automatically suck donkey balls? You deserve a neg for that as well.

TOS is set in the future. Do you think TOS sucks donkey balls?

The distant future crap we have seen (temporal cold wars, timeships, etc.) have been a result of B&B. That particular stuff has sucked donkey balls, but that doesn't mean someone else couldn't do it a thousand times better.

Yes.

Untrue, which is why I payed you back in kind.

Explain why setting things in the future means it will suck donkey balls.

Don't be obtuse. You know exactly what is meant by "future" in this context.

Sorry, but you are being rather unreasonable, thinking that it's impossible to have a good post-Nemesis Trek movie.

Too much of the Galaxy explored already to make the series sufficiently "Star Trek"-ey + Voyager has pretty much ruined official canon + no one apart from Trekkies cares about anything that happened in the 24th Century

There are other galaxies, you know.

Edited to reflect my true opinion, as opposed to what you assumed to be my opinion.

But again, there are more galaxies out there that Voyager hasn't fucked with.

Of course, TOS's "galactic barrier" nonsense might pose a problem.

Perhaps.

But being burned by writers who finds answers to all of life's problems at the 55th minute gets tiresome after a while. How many tachyongenerating pulsinghotflash beamagixthingy explanations do we REALLY want??

Our galaxy is pretty fucking huge. There are other sections that can have several hundred years worth of storylines (in the Trek universe).

Just don't do another war series like DS9 or a joyride through the unknown like Voyager. Bring back the excitements that was TOS and TNG.

ENT has some .. emotional.. attachments to me.. but that's different. I loved it, but except for the 1st half of Season 2 and mostly of Season 4, it isn't worth a second look like TOS and TNG are.

Yes, it's important to have good concepts like that. TOS and VOY were both about exploring the unknown (TOS did it better than VOY). DS9 and TNG were more about exploring the relatively already known (of course, DS9 developed a war later on). ENT was a haphazard mix of TNG/DS9 and TOS/VOY.

Well, that's a problem with just about any TV show (or movie, or book). But if it were an arc-ish show (maybe even a miniseries), that problem would be lessened.

They could always retry VOY in another galaxy, and I think with the right people at the helm, it would work. Starts out as a miniseries how the first expedition to the Andromeda Galaxy sets sail. Once arrived, they can't go back for some reason. There ya go. No AQ races popping up every other week

Christ, this last page shows exactly why Trek fell apart in the end.

A bunch of whiners crying about how "their" idea of how Trek should have gone didn't happen. While B&B were idiots 95% of the time, it didn't really matter, because it wouldn't have mattered what they had done - Trek "fans" would have found some way to pick it apart.

The beautiful thing that was Trek collapsed not due to poor management, though that certainly played a part. It collapsed because its fans decided, somewhere along the way, that their individual vision was "better." And ultimately, it was that selfishness that ruined it for everyone.