16/11: Trekkerati be damned.
I rather enjoyed the the new trailer for Star Trek, so sue me 'Trekkers'.
After reading De's latest post over at the RCR, I feel a little ashamed to call myself a Trek fan.
As someone who has watched and enjoyed most incarnations of the previous Trek, I really don't see this new film as an insult to myself, or as one person put it "my childhood being raped". I see it as what it is, an attempt to give a dying franchise some new legs. Now I know that there are those who will argue that it's a quick refurbish in an attempt to make a buck, but come on, did the loyal Star Trek fans really think they were gonna give them another chance?
After Enterprise it was obvious that the loyal Trek fanbase wasn't enough to keep interest in the show afloat, and that it had become unprofitable in many regards. And this is what Star Trek is, a business. Their job is to market their product and make it appeal to the most amount of people it can, while still trying to maintain some semblance of what made it good in the first place.
I'm sorry nerds, but the honest truth of the matter is that to the norms, Star Trek has a negative connotation to it. It's not like Star Wars, or even (ug) Harry Potter where the concept can appeal to a the greater audience... I think over the years Trekkers, Trekkies and whatever they want to call themselves have in fact alienated others from gaining a larger following in the series due largely to their behavior. Trekkies are seen as social pariahs, and while the comic convention crowd (due largely to the success of Sand Diego Con) has seen an unprecedented shift to mainstream, Trekkies have yet to make that leap.
So no, the movie is not being made for the die hard fans. Yes, it is an attempt to reach a larger audience by forgoing canon, adding Star Wars like action, and otherwise neglecting aspects that many loyal trek fans would prefer be included or vice versa.
Anyway, watch this. You've probably definitely seen it before. William Shatner's Get a Life.
After reading De's latest post over at the RCR, I feel a little ashamed to call myself a Trek fan.
As someone who has watched and enjoyed most incarnations of the previous Trek, I really don't see this new film as an insult to myself, or as one person put it "my childhood being raped". I see it as what it is, an attempt to give a dying franchise some new legs. Now I know that there are those who will argue that it's a quick refurbish in an attempt to make a buck, but come on, did the loyal Star Trek fans really think they were gonna give them another chance?
After Enterprise it was obvious that the loyal Trek fanbase wasn't enough to keep interest in the show afloat, and that it had become unprofitable in many regards. And this is what Star Trek is, a business. Their job is to market their product and make it appeal to the most amount of people it can, while still trying to maintain some semblance of what made it good in the first place.
I'm sorry nerds, but the honest truth of the matter is that to the norms, Star Trek has a negative connotation to it. It's not like Star Wars, or even (ug) Harry Potter where the concept can appeal to a the greater audience... I think over the years Trekkers, Trekkies and whatever they want to call themselves have in fact alienated others from gaining a larger following in the series due largely to their behavior. Trekkies are seen as social pariahs, and while the comic convention crowd (due largely to the success of Sand Diego Con) has seen an unprecedented shift to mainstream, Trekkies have yet to make that leap.
So no, the movie is not being made for the die hard fans. Yes, it is an attempt to reach a larger audience by forgoing canon, adding Star Wars like action, and otherwise neglecting aspects that many loyal trek fans would prefer be included or vice versa.
Anyway, watch this. You've probably definitely seen it before. William Shatner's Get a Life.
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