That’s not the point. The point is that ToS led to many more landmark episodes of TNG, and DS9. I can think of a few DS9 episodes off the top of my head that show exactly what the world needs right now. The episode In the Pale Moonlight comes to mind. If you have never watched DS9 , it is a somewhat standalone episode narrated by Avery Brooks, who gave one of the best performances ever on tv. Fiction or not, science fiction has been an inspiration for the world we live in today.
The pandering to people who would rather be stimulated by explosions rather than have intelligent thought is a step backwards.
Hopefully the CW can get Star Trek back on track. There’s already one CW show I like. It’s actually Supernatural. I heard Arrow, and Flash are worth watching as well. Some of the stuff on Supernatural is ridiculous but the recurring characters have massive depth.
Abrams Trek leads to scenarios like Farenheit 451. People sitting around being stimulated by explosions, and not examinations of human nature nor intelligent thought. Spoon fed everything. Mesmerized by flashing lights, oblivious to the world around them. Heads buried in the sand, while worlds collide, and galaxies burn.
One of the multitude of reasons that civilization is on it’s way to another dark age. The Not Star Trek made this clear as day to me. The dumbing down of people to make a dollar. Well the people using the ignorant, stupid, and gullible to make a buck don’t realize that their world cannot exist without those people.
Maybe that’s not the point for YOU. That is the point for ME. That the Trek that was co-created by Gene L Coon (the man who gave us the Klingons and Khan) was significantly more interesting and entertaining than the Trek that was created by Roddenberry alone. Roddenberry took all the fun out of Trek, JJ put it back.
There’s nothing wrong with pandering. It is supposed to be entertainment FIRST, message first story telling is boring story telling, it’s the first 3 seasons of TNG, pretty much the entire run of Voyager. If you want people to hear your message you need to entertain them. There are good reasons JJ’s first Trek movie made more money than any 2 previous Trek movies combined, high on the list is that it was more entertaining than any of the other Treks not Khan.
Abrams Trek leads to having the biggest audience Trek has ever had so now if you want to whip some message on them you’ll have more people listening than ever before. Again look at TOS, it was entertaining FIRST with messages thrown in sometimes.
You shouldn’t have so much ego tied to stuff you didn’t create. That’s one of the things JJ Trek taught me, way too many old Trek fans feel way too tied to stuff they are merely an audience for.