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Star Trek XI - is XI pronounced "AIIIIIEEEE"? if
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Sokar Rostau
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One thing that bothered me about this whole idea was that Kirk's version of the Enterprise is very distinctively 60's chic. I remember seeing an episode, or one of the films, where Captain Picard is looking at pictures or scale models of every version of the Enterprise and while they all had the familiar overall design, Kirk's stood out in the mix like the proverbial dog's hind leg.jmervyn said:
Movie goers like special effects and seeing, especially in franchises, something new and cool. I think using the original Enterprise design from the 60s could be considered box office suicide. So maybe whoever it was that mentioned the possibility of a reimagining came close to the mark. This is what brought me to the answer the question posed by jmerv in the thread title:
The number nine in French is neuf, which is pronounced nerf, therefore Star Trek: Nerf.
EDIT: Crap, I misread. There's 10 Star Trek movies already? OMFG kill this dead horse already.
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Machina
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I had hoped they'd learnt their lesson with Enterprise when it came to going backwards in the Trek time line. Let alone going back to characters made famous by other actors.
I will watch it because it's a Trek film, but I will do so wishing all the while that they had made a new crew and set it in the future of the Trek time line, when things are far more interesting. That's my opinion anyway.
I prefer the series to the films anyway.
I will watch it because it's a Trek film, but I will do so wishing all the while that they had made a new crew and set it in the future of the Trek time line, when things are far more interesting. That's my opinion anyway.
I prefer the series to the films anyway.
pip boy
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It wasnt the whole going backwards thing that was the issue.
Enterprise just sucked, full stop.
It had a bloody stupid time traveling story, and some of the characters where just unlikable/cardboard.
Worst of all it tried to do a continual story, and because it was complicated/boring/crap you just didnt bother to watch it once you'd missed an episode.
Machina
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For me it really was the going backwards thing. Some of the story arcs were pretty good - I liked the weapon arc for exmaple, although even that did contain a few boring episodes. But it had nothing to do with Trek cannon and completely lacked continuity with other Star Treks. That was what really spoilt it for me.
The ship was also too dull - as were the uniforms, the technology and that dreadful title music.
jmervyn
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I wondered if it was just me. I've been trying... I just watched an episode where Borg were found in the Arctic, and I was wondering how they could write this one off successfully (the Borg being first encountered by Picard, IIRC).
Plus, Jolene Blaloc is scary in real life. Catsuits do not a series make.
Well, at least that explains some of it. They were probably trying to mimic B5...
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pip boy
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DS9's story was rather simple though, Feds Vs mighty morphing rangers, opps.
Enterprises story didnt make much sense if you missed several episodes, which ive always done and never had a problem, with other series. I can peice together the story, but i just couldn't be arsed to watch it because it wasnt that great.
Dondrei
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I know I've posted it before, but still the authoritative word on this issue.
This reboot idea has been around at least since Star Trek VI, in fact they were planning to make Star Trek VI about Kirk and Spock in the academy together for quite a while before coming to their senses and making an immensely better movie. I see that the idea has finally borne fruit, how awful. Please hurry up and hit the cinemas, flop and die.
P.S. The whole odd/even thing is garbage:
1) Debatable, very different kind of thing to the others though
2) Superb
3) Underappreciated, suffers a bit from the inevitable comparison to Wrath, but I think it's a pretty darn good movie
4) Only good from an ultimate-80s-movie camp perspective
5) A true shocker, no doubt about it
6) Excellent
7) Dross
8) Just awful
9) Forgettable, kind of like a long episode of the series rather than a movie, at least it was more or less true to the spirit of Generations though. Not a shocker, just underwhelming
10) Unspeakable
Although perhaps it isn't fair to include the Next Gen movies, they all suck.
This reboot idea has been around at least since Star Trek VI, in fact they were planning to make Star Trek VI about Kirk and Spock in the academy together for quite a while before coming to their senses and making an immensely better movie. I see that the idea has finally borne fruit, how awful. Please hurry up and hit the cinemas, flop and die.
Okay, clearly the person who made this site was insane. And Star Trek IV is purely for camp value.website said:
I would choose Nobody McNoone.
You exaggerate.
I checked to see which number that atrocious movie was, for a moment I thought you were actually saying it was good.
P.S. The whole odd/even thing is garbage:
1) Debatable, very different kind of thing to the others though
2) Superb
3) Underappreciated, suffers a bit from the inevitable comparison to Wrath, but I think it's a pretty darn good movie
4) Only good from an ultimate-80s-movie camp perspective
5) A true shocker, no doubt about it
6) Excellent
7) Dross
8) Just awful
9) Forgettable, kind of like a long episode of the series rather than a movie, at least it was more or less true to the spirit of Generations though. Not a shocker, just underwhelming
10) Unspeakable
Although perhaps it isn't fair to include the Next Gen movies, they all suck.
Speaking of dreadful title music... the new Battlestar, OMG...
jmervyn
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Fine, but that still doesn't excuse the abominable looping failures. If you pull something like this, you better be as careful as Zemeckis with "Back to the Future".
I didn't have much respect for TNG in that vein either, to say nothing of all the holodeck garbage.
jmervyn
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Which episode was that? I mainly meant the first one, and I don't even recall if Zemeckis directed the rest.
