Why Is Star Trek The Huge Success That It Is?

I like science fiction all around.
As with all things, it’s an escape.

It’s a great work that talks about tons of actual human issues. It’s a unique and solid base for all sorts of space exploration, but furthermore exploration into what humanity really is. And of course, at the time their special effects were pretty sweet for TV.

That said, I just watch the movie Generations and boy was it ever lame! I criticized it at every turn. The plot was just so awful, the writing so lame, the Borg so impotent and uncharacteristically flawed, it was a slap in the face to the franchise, a selling of a basic plot to all other non-uber fans. But I had a laugh trying to place it in the timeline of DS9 and Voyager in relation to the EMH not having command knowledge! That was when I truly knew I have become a Star Trek geek. But it’s well worth being geeky for.

Funniest thing was I hated it when I was a kid (except TNG, that always has a place in my heart), simply cause my pops watched it on TV all the time. Me and my sister would groan and plead when he would stop channel surfing. When I “grew up”, I fell in love with watching it all again, in sequence, all at once (thanks torrents!), and I appreciated it on a much deeper level than I did as a child.

The one thing I’m sad about is that Star Trek takes all the limelight, it seems. I had never heard of Babylon 5 until recently in university when someone mentioned it was great, and sure enough it was an amazing action space opera mystery.

I am really really hoping that the movie is great, and that it spawns a great TV series. The one thing I really want in Trek is believability and continuity. No more of Voyager’s “the anti-proton field around the modulator needs flexitizing!” technobabble, more of TNG’s exploration into humanity’s ventures in Space.

I agree with @asmonet on the escape- at least the original Star Trek was. To me the newer versions tend more toward “soap opera on a space ship” and I never really took to them as much as the old re-runs of the original.

OMFG I’m so much more of a nerd over Babylon 5.
They have it on hulu. :D

I Attribute It To The Initial Caps.

Hey all you Star Trek fans, I thought you’d like to see some detailed photos of the new (old) starship Enterprise 1701 (“no bloody A, B, C, or D!!”)!

http://screencrave.com/2009-03-06/new-models-of-the-star-trek-enterprise/

^Nerd!

<3

@asmonet LOL! You KNOW it Sister!

Peace, Live Long and Prosper! _\\//

My favorite thing about the original Star Trek (besides the really short skirts on all the women and Shatner running around without a shirt a few times) is the story where during production some Hollywood-type told Gene Roddenberry he had to have a priest (or minister, or some such religious personage) in the cast, and he said, “No I don’t.”

Gene Roddenberry rules!

One of the things I like about the Star Trek brand of TV series and movies is that you can follow some characters through several series: for example, Spock, for example, besides being one of the main characters in the original series, has made a few appearances on later series and in (I believe) 6 of the movies.

Another character who extends past one series is Worf. I always thought that if you took all the episodes of The Next Generation and Deep Space 9 that had Worf as a main character in the episode, you would have complete series you mignt call Star Trek: Klingon!

Several years there was an interactive PC game with that title

I like it because it was and is a platform to examine the many conflicts and issues that are present in humanity without referencing actual events or people, topics like slavery, racism, human rights, capitalism and even war itself.
Every series was faithful to this theme and core to varying degrees.
And it is a real disappointment that the new star trek movie is hailed in the press as the revival of star trek, when in actuality it violates and rapes the original theme beyond recognition and instead replaces it by blinding special effects and numbing action.
I think the roddenberrys would rotate in their graves if they could see this movie.

@ragingloli I believe yours is the very first negative response to the new movie.
I haven’t seen it yet, but I plan to. If its less thematic than the other renditions of the TREK mythos, it still seems to prove entertaining.
Incidently, Mr, Nimoy has given it a favorable endorsement, and he was foundational to Star Trek, both in the television series and in the movies.
So, jury is still out but the verdict is about to be heard.
Still, I greatly appreciate your views on TREK!
Live Long and Prosper! _\\//

@TheKNYHT I watched the movie. While i think the movie is good as a sci fi movie, i think it utterly fails at being Star Trek (i thought the same about the Hitman movie. Good as an action movie, a failure at being a Hitman movie). It felt rushed. It felt superficial. It was action scene after action scene, leaving no time to actually think about what you are seeing. The antagonist was a hollow shell. Tolian Soran had more character.
The movie was almost everything that Star Trek shouldn’t be.
Honestly, i think Nemesis was a better movie than this.

also way too much lensflare, and the new design of the enterprise was just plain ugly