Except, well, there ARE still interesting Trek stories being told on TV. That universe is interesting enough, and rich enough, that I see it as being more susta

Except, well, there ARE still interesting Trek stories being told on TV. That universe is interesting enough, and rich enough, that I see it as being more sustainable. I mean, not for nothing, but there's a whole HOST of characters there instead of one dude, as with Bond. I'm a little confused about your ire about Dune. Prior to the recent films, those novels never had a decent adaptation -- Lynch's film in 1984, and then a really terrible TV attempt by SciFi like 25 years ago. They're hugely influential in SF, so taking another bite at the apple seems reasonable to me. My understanding is that Villeneuve is in fact doing a film based on _Dune Messiah_ as a third film, but I don't know if he'll go farther than that. The books get increasingly goofy, so that would be a reasonable stopping point; nobody wants a 3 hour film about a giant human/worm hybrid who rules for 2,000 years or whatever. The TV show is its own work. I have no judgement on it at all, but its success or failure doesn't affect my opinion of the films.