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Personally, I don't see anything wrong with going for an alternate timeline and a modern take on starship design. As long as they don't turn Star Trek into an a

Personally, I don't see anything wrong with going for an alternate timeline and a modern take on starship design. As long as they don't turn Star Trek into an action franchise, I'm okay with it.

alexbecker 11y ago
> As long as they don't turn Star Trek into an action franchise Oh god, that would be tragic.
- ramblerman 11y ago
  Well that's pretty much what the last movie was. That being said I thought it was quite good when you didn't think of it as 'star trek'
  - aidenn0 11y ago
    Yeah the two new movies were essentially action movies that captured the feel of the TOS characters.
    - rhino369 11y ago
      All the movies except 1 and 4 were essentially action movies. And 4 was mostly a fish out of water comedy.
      - ocdtrekkie 11y ago
        As much as it's often panned, Insurrection is the most Star Trek of Star Trek movies. It's about the Prime Directive at it's core. The Undiscovered Country is also a great example of a movie about diplomacy. Sure, every movie is going to be action-packed for film screens, but those two I felt stuck to Star Trek's ideals more than the rest, where the movie focused on stopping a specific evil villain.
        rhino369 11y ago
        It's been a while since I saw Insurrection and Undiscovered Country, but you could make a similar argument about Star Trek into Darkness. It was about the struggle between a militarized starfleet and a starfleet about discovery and exploration.
        ocdtrekkie 11y ago
        I honestly just feel Into Darkness is a movie about Khan. I've never felt the new Trek movies put out this discovery and exploration vibe. They certainly haven't attempted to do so as of yet.
    - serge2k 11y ago
      Did they capture the feel? Spock was okay at times. Kirk was okay at times. Scotty was comic relief, with very little of him being a badass
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dangerboysteve 11y ago
As long as it's not based on a truck rest stop like DS9.
cwyers 11y ago
I've seen this said a lot, and I mean... the original Star Trek was a TV series in the late 60s, so in terms of what the effects were capable of on a TV budget and what standards and practices would allow, I think they were as action-oriented as they could be. The original run of Star Trek is filled with as many fistfights, space battles and fights to the death with the Vulcan Lirpa as the budget would allow. Trek was about much more than JUST action (Conscience Of The King is one of my favorite examples of this), but they did a lot of it.

Personally, I don't see anything wrong with going for an alternate timeline and a modern take on starship design. As long as they don't turn Star Trek into an action franchise, I'm okay with it.

alexbecker 11y ago

> As long as they don't turn Star Trek into an action franchise Oh god, that would be tragic.

ramblerman 11y ago
Well that's pretty much what the last movie was. That being said I thought it was quite good when you didn't think of it as 'star trek'
- aidenn0 11y ago
  Yeah the two new movies were essentially action movies that captured the feel of the TOS characters.
  - rhino369 11y ago
    All the movies except 1 and 4 were essentially action movies. And 4 was mostly a fish out of water comedy.
    - ocdtrekkie 11y ago
      As much as it's often panned, Insurrection is the most Star Trek of Star Trek movies. It's about the Prime Directive at it's core. The Undiscovered Country is also a great example of a movie about diplomacy. Sure, every movie is going to be action-packed for film screens, but those two I felt stuck to Star Trek's ideals more than the rest, where the movie focused on stopping a specific evil villain.
      - rhino369 11y ago
        It's been a while since I saw Insurrection and Undiscovered Country, but you could make a similar argument about Star Trek into Darkness. It was about the struggle between a militarized starfleet and a starfleet about discovery and exploration.
        ocdtrekkie 11y ago
        I honestly just feel Into Darkness is a movie about Khan. I've never felt the new Trek movies put out this discovery and exploration vibe. They certainly haven't attempted to do so as of yet.
  - serge2k 11y ago
    Did they capture the feel? Spock was okay at times. Kirk was okay at times. Scotty was comic relief, with very little of him being a badass
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dangerboysteve 11y ago

As long as it's not based on a truck rest stop like DS9.

cwyers 11y ago

I've seen this said a lot, and I mean... the original Star Trek was a TV series in the late 60s, so in terms of what the effects were capable of on a TV budget and what standards and practices would allow, I think they were as action-oriented as they could be. The original run of Star Trek is filled with as many fistfights, space battles and fights to the death with the Vulcan Lirpa as the budget would allow. Trek was about much more than JUST action (Conscience Of The King is one of my favorite examples of this), but they did a lot of it.