How hopeful are you for Star Trek 13, now that JarJar is no longer directing, and Orci has been replaced by Simon Pegg as writer?

Simon Pegg is writing? Cool.
I didn’t hate two movies like you did, but this can only be a positive thing.

Two points:

1) Star Trek is shit, regardless.
2) Sean of the Dead aside, Pegg has wrote utter dross.

You didn’t like the 2009 one? I thought it was okay, besides all that time travel…that was weird.

I humbly wish to disagree with point #1, @ucme. Of course this disagreement comes from one old enough to remember watching the original TV series when it first aired in the late ‘60s. I have seen all 12 Star Trek movies (to date), and have the first 11 in my DVD collection at home. Sooner or later I will be adding Into Darkness to my collection, either on DVD or in iTunes.

True, in places, the writing was on the thin side (particularly in Next Generation), however, all 5 TV series are very enjoyable and develop compelling characters. Suffice to say, when Star Trek 13 is released I will watch it as soon as either Netflix or iTunes makes it available.

That’s because you @sahID are clearly attached to the franchise, which is fair enough of course.
I struggle with the concept of sticking with a series over such a long time, with many incarnations, purely because of the brand itself.
I mean, the law of averages suggests it’s going to decline as a product at some point, even considering the wild devotion of trekkies.

I loved the last 2 Star Trek movies, so I’m not sure what you are talking about. To each his own, I guess.

I was just reading a 1989 interview with the Great Bird, and he plainly said he did not write Star Trek to be a bunch of space battles, that one had his choice of shows for space battles and Trek was not going to be another one of them. Roddenberry was about humanity (in the broad, aliens included sense), character development, interpersonal conflict.

That is exactly why I say that the recent films are lovely, fun action films, but they are absolutely not Star Trek.

I look forward to a film Roddenberry would be happy to put his name on again.