steve in hollywood

I swear, this has got to be the most fickle, annoying subgroup of fans ever that aren’t happy with the new Star Trek film without having even seen it yet.

Oh my gosh, the phasers look slightly different!

Oh no, the events of the past are in a slightly different order!

Please, it’s just a few changes because locking the new film for a whole new generation of fans into a “canon” that was built sporadically from a TV show, retrofit for novels and movies, that is hung together like spaghetti was kind of restrictive.

I’m not done yet.

All I keep hearing is stuff like “Oh, but this is Christopher Pike so the uniforms should look like they did in “The Cage”" and on and on.

The Cage was a pilot for the show! They stuffed it in to have more episode material! It was an afterthought, not some grand Roddenberry scheme based on a canon or bible. Most of the Star Trek canon is a mish mash of fans trying to make sense of the big Hollywood mess they made! The other Star Trek movies broke it all the time… “Well, Chekov never met Khan!” “No wait, Chekov was really on the ship but wasn’t promoted yet so we just didn’t see him in that episode.” Who cares? It’s a TV show, not a real history!

These hard core fans, wanting the impossible — to keep to some canon that hardly fits together anyway, that the TV series, movies and books even have to break from time to time, is ridiculous. Face it, Star Trek has DIED. Enterprise BOMBED. They are BRINGING IT BACK and trying to make it appeal to a whole new generation of fans and give it LIFE again. The hard core fans should be HAPPY that new people get to experience the Star Trek universe and that Hollywood is WILLING to make a movie after the dismal ratings for the last series and the last Star Trek movies!  It’s like a starving man turning down a free sandwich because “oh, it’s got too much mayo.”

You know what, you want to complain and moan about these things? Fine. But you have no appreciation for the fact that you are not only getting a movie, you are getting one from a director who actually CARES about the fans and the series, instead of some Hollywood rip off artist. Not only that, he is one of the BEST directors out here! You haven’t even SEEN the film and yet you are trashing it! This has got to be the most ungrateful type of fan I’ve ever seen. “I want Star Trek, but I only want it MY way.” This film is going to re-launch the Star Trek universe, and you can either get on board the NEW USS Enterprise, or you can stay in your basement holding your old-style phaser saying, “It’s just not the same.”