That was to be expected. Hardcore Trekkies weren't numerous enough to sustain the franchise, so J.J. decided to turn Star Trek into a series of generic villain-centered action movies for teens while trying to placate geeks with pointless references. It couldn't work. Nerds are obsessive, detail-oriented people (I'd say many of them are borderline autistic) who don't forgive bad science and canon violations. Think of all the outrage concerning Star Wars Special Editions... Geeks don't like revolutionary changes.

It's not just a hipster ("Star Trek was way cooler before it was popular") attitude. Attention to detail is the core of nerd identity. It's who we are. Admit it - we're mutants. We spend hours every day on sites like this one, nitpicking movies to death instead of getting laid. That's not healthy, but we wouldn't have our lives any other way. Mutant and proud!

Sure, the movies are engaging... I'll go watch them. I'll even buy the discs (unless they're very expensive). But they don't feel like "my" Star Trek anymore.

See, I come at this with no attachment to the TV series. Haven't watched an episode ever, haven't watched any next-gen films except First Contact. My entire basis for this franchise has been the original 6 theatrical films, which are not ultra slow techno-babble-fests, but are fun, light-hearted sci-fi adventures with interesting, original stories  and likeable characters (OK, except for TMP, which I admit I like).

That's all I ask for, and in my opinion 2009 Trek sorta delivers on this (although I like it less every time I see it), and Into Darkness completely fails at this. Beyond any hyper-nitpicking about how garbage of a script it is (and boy is it), the fact is that the story is convoluted and boring, and I don't like a lot of the characters, so it's a shit movie, plain and simple.

More than anything, nu-trek betrays most of what I find endearing about the original 6, which is seeing an experienced crew trying to think their way out of elaborate problems, while still being light-hearted and having a good time. Nu-Trek is about of a bunch of cocky young assholes who constantly make bad decisions and are rewarded for it, while at the same time trying to be gritty and "dark".

It's literally the anti-thesis of why I like the series.

Last edited by bullet3 (2013-08-16 06:35:30)

Looks like Paramount went full retard... I was going to buy the disc release mostly for the extras.

The visual commentary is available as a digital download on itunes which is shit- http://trekcore.com/blog/2013/08/review … l-blu-ray/