[Durus]

It is almost unimaginable how anyone could have watched the last Star Trek movie and thought it was bad in comparison to any original Star Trek anything. Star Trek the original series and most of the movies were low budget, over/poorly acted, poorly scripted, poorly directed, paeans to socialism. While the last Star Trek movie was hardly a paragon of movie making it was better than anything that the franchise had ever made previously. This is like listening to someone go on about how Tim Burtons Bat Man was preferable to Nolans Batman because it captured the feel of the (horrible, execrable, ambiguously gay) TV series better.

I get that people want to be nostalgic about their childhood TV series but please be rational.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Er, Star Trek: TOS was one of the most expensive shows on television at the time with state of the art special effects. It was an ode to Westerns and pretty fiercly pro-American (albeit JFK’s New Frontier, which was pretty Conservative by today’s standards). If the show was as subpar as you described, it certainly would not have had such popularity, spun off movies, new series, et al, and still be going strong almost 50 years later.

The problem with why many of us fans didn’t like the remake is because Abrams pretty much went out of his way to trash the history/canon, etc. of the franchise. I thought it was offensive and sophomoric, with poorly-chosen actors well out of their depth for the characters they’re portraying. Rather than remake it, they should’ve continued on past beyond Picard’s Enterprise and set it in the 25th century with a new ship and new characters.

[mowowie]

Like Plinkett says, the Last Star trek film was and had to be in this day and age designed to appeal to a mass audience.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dCJWr40raQ

as a past ST fan get why people liked it and all but i have 108 of my own reasons why i did not really like this movie.

I was kinda surprised plinkett overall liked it....