So the Trek franchise needs new fans. Enter JJ Abrams, who says he injected some feeling of Star Wars into Star Trek. Great. Sure. Fantastic.
But the Kelvin Timeline (aka JJverse) events don’t overwrite the Prime Universe. In Star Trek, anything that can happen does happen in alternate quantum realities. Therefore, both universes exist, and JJ didn’t ruin it.
Hoo boy, I’m going to regret bringing this out of the Star Trek general thread. The way JJ handled the first two new Trek films were pretty damn bad. The first one was mostly harmless, just general action schlocky and all that. Into Darkness was just such a fucking abysmal, vapid, soulless, derivative cash-grab it was genuinely offensive. Beyond was fairly decent and at least tried to be original and respectful of the original source, something Into Darkness cannot claim in a million years. JJ didn’t ruin Trek or the original universe, but he surely squandered it and everything it gave him.
JEDIT: You just wait until Star Trek: Discovery comes out. Fans are going to come out in droves saying it sucks because reasons.
Lol, you don’t even need to wait 'till it comes out. Literally everything that peeks it’s head out from behind the production office’s doors is being shit on in droves. Not because it’s new or different. Because it looks like absolute hot garbage.