The gap of time between X-Men and X-Men: Apocalypse will be longer than the gap between the episode “Space Seed” and The Wrath of Khan…
Not sure why that makes me feel old since “Space Seed” was before I was born but it does.
What gets me is that the gap between TOS and TNG is 18 years, but it’s been 21 years now since TNG ended. That just doesn’t seem right.
Trek ain’t been gone that long. There were several Trek series that kept going after TNG ended. Personally, I rather like the idea of letting it lie fallow for a while, considering that the last two series were not particularly popular, even with hardcore Trekkies.
TOS and TNG were new things, and were allowed to grow and develop. After that, Paramount started getting way too involved in protecting the franchise from anything that might be detrimental to its cash draw…
Isn’t the third Chris Pine/Zachary Quinto/Karl Urban/Zoe Saldana/John Cho/Simon Pegg movie set to come out in a matter of months?
Yes, but we were talking about Star Trek.
Nimoy gave them his blessing. Who am I to argue with the captain of the Enterprise?
I for one rather enjoy the Abrams Trek movies, though I wish he would swim out a bit from the shallow waters of the original canon and try to work with some original plotlines. I look at his films as sort of a reflection on the original canon. By taking the original characters and plot elements, but using the time travel from the first film to create an alternate context for them to all coexist in, Abrams is showing the different ways things could have played out in the Trek verse (sort of like what the Mirror Universe normally does).
This way, he’s exploring different facets of the characters, like forcing Spock and Kirk into a professional/platonic/whereveryouwanttotakeitIwon’tjudgemuch relationship at an earlier and less matured point in their lives. The two characters are further destabilized by having Kirk’s father and Spock’s mother killed off early on, adding to the drama pressure cooker recipe.
Overall, I like it, but again, I do kind of wish Abrams and company would put away the original series blu-rays and try to work with whole cloth instead for a bit.
Exactly.
I can’t say I don’t enjoy them for what they are, but they aren’t Star Trek in the same way that Taco Bell isn’t Mexican food. Actually, I think Taco Bell comes a lot closer.
Honestly, most Americans have probably never had Mexican food. Most “Mexican” food is actually Tex-Mex, which is Mexican food in the same sense that Chicago-style Deep Dish is Italian food.
Trek Trivia: Spock is an Andorian slang word for sperm. That’s why they always seem to be smirking when dealing with the Enterprise crew.
Abrams really isn’t involved with the latest Star Trek movie due to his directing Star Wars Ep. VII. Simon Pegg has co-written the script for the latest one, so I hold out high hopes for this one, since he is already an established writer. Star Trek Beyond has finished filming, by the way, and is expected to be released on July 22, 2016, in time for Star Trek’s 50th anniversary. Pegg has stated the movie will have a tribute to the late Leonard Nimoy.
Oh good, because I needed a chance to cry like a baby in public.
No, you’re not. You’re talking about TNG, which is very much NOT Star Trek. Star Trek has, at most a 1/3 ‘cringingly bad’ element, not the 4/7 that TNG has.
or the 37/9 that Voyager has.
On a related, although totally unrelated note, So I Married an Ax Murderer came out 22 years ago. That’s long enough ago for a Son of So I Married an Ax Murderer.
I haven’t seen any of the new Trek movies because of the reboot, yet I think Wars may be going in the right direction.
I really like what I’ve seen of Pegg’s work but I’m not taken with him as Scotty, yet more but, he seems to really be a fan of the show.
So I honestly have no idea how I feel about any of this.
I read Gretchion’s “that doesn’t seem right” as saying not “we need a new Star Trek” series," but rather “I can’t believe how old the ‘new’ Star Trek already is,” and I identify with that. When I was a kid in the eighties, Star Trek was this ancient show my parents–parents!–used to watch; a show an entire generation removed from me. It was this ancient, remote thing. The special effects, costumes, acting, and everything looked dated. Then The Next Generation was announced, and it was a radical idea–they were making a new Star Trek, a Star Trek updated for the modern era! This new show was so different from the old one, so up-to-date, so high-tech, so unlike that old, dated, scratchy, grainy show from a previous age that my parents watched before I was even born.
It’s the realization that the “new” Star Trek is now older than the “old” Star Trek was when the “new” one came out, that is surprising.
I was sure I’d hate the second Star Trek movie but Abrams did a really good job capturing the feel of the original series.
It’s been 30 years since Back to the Future came out. This year was the year Marty McFly traveled forward in time to.
Get off my lawn you young whippersnappers!