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What I don't get... (Long Post)
By PeteFernbaugh

What I don't get...actually, what I haven't gotten since tidbits about the movie were revealed is, "Why?"

Why do we need a reboot (if it is indeed a reboot)? What's wrong with Trek as it is? Even with all the canon, it's still possible to make a new movie accessible to the general public. I didn't start watching Trek regularly until midway through Voyager's seventh season, and even then, it didn't seem all that inaccessible.

The essence of Star Trek is pretty simple to grasp--starship in space with a captain and his/her crew encountering strange new worlds and boldly going where no one has gone before. When the Klingons are the villain, they're always identified as the Klingons...not hard to grasp that. Same for the Romulans, etc. etc. Part of the fun of watching the franchise so late in the game is discovering all that has gone before.

LOST is much more inaccessible than Trek, and it's only been on for four years!! I think Star Trek has been given a bad rap in the last decade or so, especially in light of the numerous serialized television shows that demand gargantuan amounts of time from viewers. One can devote as much time as one wants to Trek without losing track. Like I said before, boiled down, it's not all that complex.

And if Paramount is trying to shed Trek of its (once again, unfair) "nerd/geek image," they'll have to do a lot more than recast the original series with pretty-boy-and-girl actors, forget all that has gone before, make it look like STAR WARS, and act like the past is best left in the past.

It's got to be pure arrogance and snobbery (and profit margins) that is motivating Paramount and Co. to do a reboot (if it is indeed a reboot).

And for those who think that the Rikers should be the focus of a new TV series or the next movie (I would prefer a TV series), I'm there. I think Riker is a cool enough character, interesting and complex, to make STAR TREK: TITAN the answer to Trek's ratings woes.

After all, Trek is primarily a creature of TV. That's why the movies have always seemed to be more intimate and familial than say, oh...I dunno...STAR WARS. (It's also why TMP didn't work so well...it was trying to be what it was not. Memo that to Abrams.)

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