Paramount Pictures appears to have finally given up on making another Star Trek movie with Chris Pine and company, as Skydance has decided to move on from that era of sci-fi storytelling. Check it out!
The Kelvin Timeline sucks and always sucked. It’s not that there was anything inherently wrong with any of the actors. One could argue that the scripts were mostly OK too – at least this was true of 2009.
The problem is that Paramount decided to rehash and replace instead of coming up with something new. At least Disney (amidst their own rehashes, admittedly) had the decency to throw in some actual new material into the Star Wars universe. What Trekkers definitely didn’t want or need was some non-Shatner running around in remakes of (parts of) beloved films, ruining references. What an absolute waste of resources for a famous franchise.
What gets to me most is people who have only seen the Kelvin Timeline films, because they’re newer, and think they are a good representation of what Star Trek is supposed to be. None of these people I have talked to say they like Star Trek, and I don’t blame them. I wouldn’t either.
I don’t mean this in a combative way (haven’t even seen much of Star Trek!) but I’m really interested in what you mean by this line:
the scripts were mostly OK too – at least this was true of 2009.
It stuck out to me because I can’t quite grasp if you mean films in general were of lower quality in 2009, scripts were less advanced or dense, or if it is a specific reference to how Star Trek scripts were more acceptable since?
Again, not meant in an argumentative way necessarily (although perhaps a little if it’s the second assumption, as I would probably disagree 🙂) - rather I am confused by seeing it expressed like this.
Meaning “Star Trek (2009)”, which was the first of the Kelvin Timeline. That is the one film of that timeline which tends to get the most love, and I think it also had the best script of any in the timeline.
The Kelvin Timeline sucks and always sucked. It’s not that there was anything inherently wrong with any of the actors. One could argue that the scripts were mostly OK too – at least this was true of 2009.
The problem is that Paramount decided to rehash and replace instead of coming up with something new. At least Disney (amidst their own rehashes, admittedly) had the decency to throw in some actual new material into the Star Wars universe. What Trekkers definitely didn’t want or need was some non-Shatner running around in remakes of (parts of) beloved films, ruining references. What an absolute waste of resources for a famous franchise.
What gets to me most is people who have only seen the Kelvin Timeline films, because they’re newer, and think they are a good representation of what Star Trek is supposed to be. None of these people I have talked to say they like Star Trek, and I don’t blame them. I wouldn’t either.
I don’t mean this in a combative way (haven’t even seen much of Star Trek!) but I’m really interested in what you mean by this line:
It stuck out to me because I can’t quite grasp if you mean films in general were of lower quality in 2009, scripts were less advanced or dense, or if it is a specific reference to how Star Trek scripts were more acceptable since?
Again, not meant in an argumentative way necessarily (although perhaps a little if it’s the second assumption, as I would probably disagree 🙂) - rather I am confused by seeing it expressed like this.
Meaning “Star Trek (2009)”, which was the first of the Kelvin Timeline. That is the one film of that timeline which tends to get the most love, and I think it also had the best script of any in the timeline.
Gotcha, that makes sense!