Enterprise, otoh, managed to get very good by its final season. Definitely better than anything in insipid Voyager's entire 7-year run.

expect this to look and feel more 80's trek than 90's. which isn't all bad.

It's just what happens after that, that might worry Trekkies.

This will be great! I've enjoyed everything JJ has offered up so far in his career

I aint a STrek nut so I can't moan if they get some nuts and bolts out of place on the enterprise, although I loved the Shatner and want to watch Wrath of Khan again now!. If it's as epic in Scale as the Starship Troopers Space Scenes I'll be happy, I'd even be cool with cheesy bootcamp teens and Baby Spock sound brilliant!

Insurrection = STINKO!

It shouldn't matter if they recast the icons. Sometimes you get better.

For years, Basil Rathbone was the only Holmes people would picture when they thought of the great detective.

Then Jeremy Brett came along, and any Holmes fan who saw his performance would tell you THAT was Holmes. In a way that Basil could never be.

Recasting icons is not that big a deal.

Everybody always talks about the 'Star Trek cliches'--the fact that there have been so many episodes of Star Trek that they end up telling the same stories over and over again: they come to a planet of aliens that seem benevolent, but actually they're BLANK or they get captured by a transcendental being who tests them, and so on and so forth. The implication is that they have run out of story possibilities, and anything they could come up with is just going to be something we've already seen repackaged or spun a little differently.

But what I don't understand is why they take this universe that they've spent 40 years creating, in which 150-300 years in the future the human race has made all this progress, internally and externally, has ventured out into space and begun interacting with other beings, and yet the only part of this world that they show us is one tiny little bit: what it's like to be in the military/scientific exploration organization called Starfleet.

It would be like if the 1960s were something that you had made up in your head, and you decided to create a series of TV shows and movies about them that spanned hundreds of hours, and you set the whole thing on four submarines and an aircraft carrier. Sure, you would run out of stories about things that can happen on a military vessel, but you wouldn't have even scratched the surface of possible stories to tell about this world!

We've heard again and again that the human race has gotten rid of crime and poverty, and that their society has one world government, no religion, and no money. Fucking show me that! That's a fascinating concept--the human race achieving peace and perfection. What would it work like? What would life be like for normal people in it? If there's no money, what do people do with their time? What's to stop everyone from being fat and lazy and unmotivated?

Is there really no crime? If there's no money, I guess there might not be theft, but what about rape and murder and adultery and assault? Do those exist? If so, how are they dealt with? If not, what is preventing them?

How does the government work? Are there political parties? Are there different philosophies about what is the best way to govern? Is there still the tension between ensuring equality and ensuring freedom? If so, what forum is this debate carried out in?

Is there really no religion? If not, what happens when individual people have spiritual or religious feelings that they feel the need to express--are they prevented from doing this? And if there is religion, how do members of different sects manage to get along with each other?

Do people still recognize the division of the world into different countries? What role does nationality play in people's lives? Does government work at a local level too, or just at the global level? How about race and ethnicity? Do people still recognize themselves as members of different races? Are there still racial tensions?

And that's all just internal--that doesn't take into account the role that aliens would play in everyday life, or the relation between earth and colonies of humans living on other worlds. But my point is that there are so many areas of the Star Trek universe that could be explored in an intellectually interesting way that don't involve warp drives or phasers or shields being down to 23 percent.

Why can't we have a "Star Trek" show whose plot is about the founding of a colony on another planet, and whose main character is the person assigned to be the governor of that planet? Or a show that takes place on earth: in a hospital, in a school, in a factory, in an engineering firm? Or just follow the life of a simple family that lives in one of the 22nd-24th century worlds that we've seen from the point of view of a ship? Or if you want the show to take place in space, why not on a cargo ship? Why not on a pleasure cruiser?

The people who say that Star Trek has run its course and that there are no more stories to tell aren't using their imaginations.

The largest fictional universe created in the last 40 years and all they can think to do is go back to the Kirk and Spock well. Fuck off, JJ.

They never had their shit together. That's why DS9 is the best. People were more human and there were more space battles.

Nemesis's problems were different: in principle, a potential war between the Romulans and the Federation should have been a great setting for drama. But it was hard to give a rat's ass about the villain and Logan's script was deeply overrated, the set-up for Data's death was just trite.

it's a draw they both suck.

Irina Spalko as a Sith Lord? Now we're talking!

It was called Earth 2

I also suspect they are somewhat afraid of fan reaction to the changes they've made.

Although, like most franchises as Hollywood is learning, if you have no entries in it for a long time, people will pour their wallets out to see a reboot/decade later sequel with updated technology.

Too many people on AICN and other sites like it calling for movies to suck before they come out, so when they do hit, you've already got it branded into your skull that the movie will blow.