This series needs a NEW crew with a new story line developed on TV for a few years before it returns to the silver screen. Star Trek deserves better than Hollywood noob actors right out of the box.
Sorry for the rant. It's late and I was disappointed
Not at all. I think you make some good points.
I do think the ultimately blaphemy is about to take place here, but overall, I'm not sure that a new TV crew setting up a new set of movies is a good idea.
There's no desire to make movies with the
Voyager, Deep Space Nine or
Enterprise crews, and there's a reason for that.
Let's be really honest, as much affection as we had for the TNG crew, all four of their movie outings were horrible.
First Contact was almost a good movie, but it relied on a vengeful Picard wanting to murder the Borg for sticking things in him. (Forgetting that Picard dealt with the Borg on other occassions and was completely cool-headed about it.)
For the Original Crew, let's not forget the Odd/Even Meme- The odd numbered ones were awful and the even numbered ones were good. And even that's a little cheap.
The Motionless Picture and the
Final Frontier sucked. The directors (one of whom happened to be Shatner) didn't really understand the characters.
The Search for Spock was better than people give it credit for, but at the end of the day, it was just about resetting the last movie and getting Spock back into his body.
For the even number ones, "
The Undiscovered Country" has the same problem
First Contact Does. It completely relies on the Captain being bent on Revenge so he can learn a lesson in the end. It means they had to write Kirk as an anti-Klingon bigot before he could redeem himself.
Save the Whales... Er,
The Voyage Home was a fun romp, watching the characters act in our time. There's nothing special about it, though.
Ironically,
the Wrath of Khan, the film nearly all of them tried to replicate, especially this new one, was kind of a happy accident. It was made on the cheap, and they didn't know if they were going to release it as a Made for TV or Big Screen production. Special effects footage was reused. There were a mish-mash of four plot threads they put on the screen. And it turned out to be pretty good, maybe because it was allowed to develop organically instead of 50 suits saying, "Hey, we need to have that in there, too."
I preferred both Unbreakable and Signs.
