RE: Star Trek 90210
By Sennik

Edit: Oops, this is a reply to Brikar down below.

You make some very good points. However, I still think this idiotic idea of a Star Trek XI film will end Star Trek for a very long time. My reasoning is quite simple.

A new ship, new crew idea, being shown in the midst of an interstellar war with the Romulans. Ok, I'm not disputing I'm one of those people that things a new crew is a bad move. However, that in and of itself does not guarantee a failure. The movie could be very successful with a new crew. Who knows? It's the war part that I have a problem with. Someone compared what this film is starting to sound like to Band of Brothers and Blackhawk Down (among other war movies). From my memory, Blackhawk Down was a group of people who I found completely interchangeable getting massacred. I haven't seen the film in a while, but that's the impression it left me with. Band of Brothers was a 10-part miniseries that had a lot of time to develop a whole platoon of characters, something a 2 hour movie will not have.

So to me, this movie sounds like it will be completely unrecognizable to Star Trek. And at that point, my question becomes, is it Star Trek any longer? People can spew "war is part of the human adventure" and "you can define humanity's spirit in a war movie" and so on, but I just think the whole idea is so un-Star Trek that it is doomed to failure.

Perhaps, if the franchise was going strong, and Star Trek was a popular commodity, a completely different type of film wouldn't be bad. But for a franchise as battered and bruised by medicore writing and producing, this movie will be the nail in the coffin.

My prediction is this: many, not all, but enough Star Trek fans will not go to see this movie because it is so un-Star Trek. The regular viewer will see it's a big action adventure movie (from the trailers) and that will get a few people to go see it (as long as the trailers are cool). But the film sounds like it's going to need a huge budget, and a huge budget needs a huge success at the box office. This won't be it. Especially when Star Trek: Enterprise can only muster about 3 million viewers a week, how is a movie going to do well?