# Boycott Star Trek 2 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 27, 2013, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boycott-star-trek-2/654126 "2013-03-27T19:13:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boycott-star-trek-2/654126/1 "2013-03-27T19:13:05Z")
End the madness! Really! Star Trek was thew worst big budget movie ever produced. Let’s show Paramount they can’t get away with foisting this unmitigated crap on us! ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boycott-star-trek-2/654126/2 "2013-03-27T19:15:08Z")
no. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boycott-star-trek-2/654126/3 "2013-03-27T19:18:33Z")
The worst big budget movie ever produced? I sincerely doubt it’s even in the Top 50 worst. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boycott-star-trek-2/654126/4 "2013-03-27T19:20:53Z")
Boycotting a movie because it’s bad? Isn’t that what capitalism is supposed to do without help? ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boycott-star-trek-2/654126/5 "2013-03-27T19:22:36Z")
I thought the first was quite good. I’m looking forward to the new one. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boycott-star-trek-2/654126/6 "2013-03-27T19:25:09Z")
It isn’t even due to be released until May 17th. How do you know it is the worst movie ever? ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boycott-star-trek-2/654126/7 "2013-03-27T19:26:29Z")
Hell, no. The first one was great. And the sideshow of wailing leaing up to the next one has been pretty sweet, too. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boycott-star-trek-2/654126/8 "2013-03-27T19:30:22Z")
The 2009 movie sucked, but since the 1979 one did, too, and _it_ had a kick-ass sequel, I’m very cautiously optimistic. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boycott-star-trek-2/654126/9 "2013-03-27T19:32:35Z")
I **loved** the Abrams ST film, and I say this as someone who grew up watching ST:TOS reruns on TV. ST:TNG came out when I was in college, and my fellow geek friends and I hesitantly gathered around the TV to see if this show would turn out to be any good. (The answer was eventually “Yes!”) So hell no to any boycott nonsense. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boycott-star-trek-2/654126/10 "2013-03-27T19:33:17Z")
I haven’t been to the movies in about 6 months. I’m going to Star Trek 2. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boycott-star-trek-2/654126/11 "2013-03-27T19:39:32Z")
> [@furryman](#): > > Star Trek was thew worst big budget movie ever produced. It’s not even in the top 10 worst Star Trek movies ever made. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boycott-star-trek-2/654126/12 "2013-03-27T19:51:10Z")
> [@Kamino\_Neko](#): > > It’s not even in the top 10 worst Star Trek movies ever made. Rubbish. I’ve been a Trek fan for over 40 years now, and that last piece of dreck was infinitely worse than any third-season episode of TOS. I don’t know what this latest reboot is, but it sure ain’t the Star Trek I used to know, not by a long shot! ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boycott-star-trek-2/654126/13 "2013-03-27T19:51:47Z")
Benedict Cumberbatch is in it. Try and keep me from seeing it. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boycott-star-trek-2/654126/14 "2013-03-27T19:52:54Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Rubbish. I’ve been a Trek fan for over 40 years now, and that last piece of dreck was infinitely worse than any third-season episode of TOS. I don’t know what this latest reboot is, but it sure ain’t the Star Trek I used to know, not by a long shot! Time to join the 21st century - there is no ‘Star Trek I used to know’. (except in repeats). ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boycott-star-trek-2/654126/15 "2013-03-27T19:54:29Z")
I’ll probably see it since it carries the ST name, but I’ll hate myself after. That is, if my experience at the last one is any indication. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boycott-star-trek-2/654126/16 "2013-03-27T19:54:31Z")
I thought it was the best Star Trek movie made so far. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boycott-star-trek-2/654126/17 "2013-03-27T19:55:25Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > but it sure ain’t the Star Trek I used to know, not by a long shot! … which is why I love it. Star Trek, to me, is about Kirk, Spock and McCoy; it’s about action, adventure and punching aliens in the face. The 2009 movie nailed those elements like nothing since 1969. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boycott-star-trek-2/654126/18 "2013-03-27T19:57:15Z")
I will see iot, but I am starting to get annoyed at the “Let’s serious-fy and darki-fy” everything. I mean the new Superman, the new Star Trek, the new James Bond are all pushing the “too serious to be fun anymore” envelope (well Superman and Star Trek seem to be, I haven’t actually seen them). In many ways it is the recent Batman movies to blame, but at least Batman to some extent was already dark. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boycott-star-trek-2/654126/19 "2013-03-27T19:58:10Z")
I enjoyed the last one immensely, and I have never seen anything Star Trek before. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boycott-star-trek-2/654126/20 "2013-03-27T19:58:11Z")
Worst? Hardly. But it was a steaming fetid pile of crap, and I have no desire to see warmed over crap. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boycott-star-trek-2/654126.md?page=2)