...Trek fans never 'think' realistically
By Lashmore

Ok, i've heard a lot of trek fans points and complaints about this movie.....and I just have to laugh...and continue laughing and laugh some more...at the fans not Abrams. Abrams is good.

Ok, lets start logically. (You think trek fans were logical wouldn't you with the vulcans and all, sadly not)

As for the industrial production of the Enterprise. Looks right to me. Let me explain in detail. In 24th century trek I have seen hulls being repaired via 'plasma torches.' Which by the name is basically superheated energy melting metal, and appears a lot like modern day welders, virtually the same technology, just can heat stronger alloys. And yes, canonwise, the builders of ships have always had to hand seal all the hull plates and bits and pieces...we've seen it a LOT. People can say 'but what about the worker bee things' well, we've only ever seen them place a hull plate where it should go, then the little guys in eva suits go in with *gasp* a fricken plasma torch and seal the job. So the construction is exactly correct, canon-wise and through realistic interpretation. (I always prefer realism over canon)

As for the, "wtf if they build the ship in the movie that means they're skipping pike" *imitates crying like a baby*

Obviously you ain't seen many movies, or read mnay books...or even seen a few theatre plays. How mnay times do you see movies 'jump' forward 20 years huh?

And its about time trek gets a rebirth. I've seen all of Abrams things. And I can say this, the depth of characters he creates, the depth of stories he goes into, surpasses anything any writer/director has done for trek.

So what if he blows half of what canon is out of the air. There is a saying "if it ain't broke don't fix it." Well, trek IS broken. How many times do you see trek fans arguing over points yet can never win? Because one epsidoe says this can do that when another episode says no it can;t do that. So yeah, trek is a canon mess.

Think etcher sketch, wish-wash, lets start over.

And don't blame Abrams about anything in this movie, because he is a trek fan, but he was told to do a prequel. It wasn't his decision. This is him getting his foot in the door. And after he has done this prequel which paramount wanted him to do, he can then go "now for MY trek."

So stop looking at the now without knowing the facts, look to the possibilities AFTER the movie. The movies idea was paramounts, Abrams was just to write and direct it in the era they told him to.

But once they've made a profit from Abrams, they'd give him free-reign with the franchise which IS a good thing.

He is the best writer for Trek. Voyager was a flop of predictability. Too predictable, why? The same ol' writers all over again. Dry husks that have had their day and lost what ability they once had to do something NEW. braga and the other guy, they tried to do trek again with Enterprise....again, a lot of the same writers, + a few new talents but look what happened. Least watched trek ever, why? It was even more predictable than Voyager! And for someone that had seen many many episodes of trek, it was "same s**t, different smell."

Abrams is always original, he never runs out of something that would trip people out. He comes up with the best twists...and the important thing....he adds a little realism to things and a depth of human emotion, as well as getting the best out of the actors(something previous directors of trek could never get out of the actors). Also, he adds more realism to his projects, especially television series by making EVERY character expendable. he has no qualms with killing off the publics favoruite character. he does it a lot with Lost.

THAT is a good thing.

Abrams is a good thing.

Its paramount that stuffed up telling him to make the movie a prequel.