skyjedi2005 said:
Manny Coto was bringing Enterprise in the right direction when it became a victim of the ousting of Rick Berman and got cancelled.
You would think trekkies finally got what they wanted berman was canned but the people replacing him have even less respect for Roddenberry and Trek canon history and only see a franchise to exploit for profit.
I share these feelings about Star Trek: Enterprise, Rick Berman and some trek-fans too.
Star Trek: Enterprise was true to canon and Roddenberry vision of Star Trek.
Some Trek-fan say Star Trek: Enterprise is not being true to canon, but I really think that these fans did not really know the canon that deep. Star Trek: Enterprise did not hit people in head with the canon and a person needed to look for it. Things like the blue jumpsuit uniforms, most of the bridge design, the pre-LCARS on the screens and so on were true to canon, but did not hit people in head with the canon. It would have been dumb if the show spend all it's time pointing out what is true to the canon, but it seems some fans needed things spelled out to them.
Now for just for fun I will point out some little things:
The NX-01 ship design came from concept artwork of a pre-TOS USS Enterprise for Star Trek The First Adventure.
The blue jumpsuit uniforms were like the blue jumpsuit uniform that Zefram Cochrane wote in Star Trek: First Contact and like the oranage jumpsuit Zefram Cochrane wote in TOS EP: "Metamorphosis".
The pre-LCARS on the screens, the controls and the computers on The NX-01 were like a cross of the Phoenix's and TOS Enterprise's screens, controls and computers.
The blue doors on the bridge of the NX-01 were like the blue doors on the bridge of Pike's Enterprise in The Cage.
Even the hair styles on the actors were in-line with Star Trek canon. The hair styles were like the 50's hair styles of the cage.
and so on....
Trek-fans ripped into Rick Berman, but Rick Berman was not to blame for the bad things on Star Trek: Enterprise. The bad things on Star Trek: Enterprise were things that fit Brannon Braga's style and not Rick Berman. Rick Berman has been attacked and blamed for the past six years. Even, Brent Spiner came out two weeks ago and said "stop it" to the trek-fan who still attack Rick Berman.
I may not like some of the things that Rick Berman let happen to Star Trek, but Star Trek was never cancelled under Rick Berman's control. Once Rick Berman was ousted, Star Trek was cancelled.
I find it funny that some trek-fans who attacked Star Trek: Enterprise are Now in real hell with Abrams' Star Trek and Now are saying "Even Star Trek: Enterprise was not as Bad as the things we are see coming out of Abrams' Star Trek". They are also saying things like "you know Star Trek: Enterprise was really not that bad".
I guess in someway Abrams' Star Trek is karma pay-back for attacking Rick Berman and Star Trek: Enterprise.
Too bad, the other trek-fans who did not attack Rick Berman or Star Trek: Enterprise have to pay too.
If they cared the enterprise would keep with design continuity of Matt Jeffries and Andrew Probert. Instead they got Ryan Church who worked on the star wars prequels and has nothing to do with trek, to create the abomination we now have to supposedly accept.
I share these feelings too.
Gene Roddenberry had small set of rules for Starship designs. Abrams and Ryan Church did not even try to follow the small, little set of rules for Starship designs than Gene Roddenberry wrote, but then Abrams and crew keep saying that they are keeping true to the canon and Honoring the Canon and Gene Roddenberry.
One of the little rules for Starship designs than Gene Roddenberry wrote is that "That the warp nacelles must all way be in pairs".
Now, just look at the horrorable USS Kevlin with it's one warp nacelle and trek-fans attacked Star Trek: Enterprise which never have a ship like this.
The Kirk, Spock and Bones are an alternate/mirror universe and not our Kirk, Spock and Bones we loved from tos and films 1-6. Since this is clearly a new universe we have no emotional attachment to these characters. Now James Kirk is a Hayden rebellious teen angst type . See not my star trek.
I don't believe Orci's Bullshit that the their souls supposedly are the same though their histories and everything we know about them have changed for a stupid 90210 trek jj verse. We all know it is our experiences that have made us who we are, the same as trek's fictional characters.
I may have embraced the new batman but it was not like we had any choice after what shusucker had done to the franchise, The new bond is not my bond and neither is this Trek my Trek. Just like the prequels and special editions are not my star wars.
I never had a connection to Batman i never read the comic, had disliked every film until batman begins. Connery and Brosnan are the only bonds i will accept as canon. The only true trek to me is tos, and films 1-6, and the oot of star wars is the only valid and true canon.
To me William Shatner is James Tiberious Kirk, in the same way Harrison Ford is Han Solo. It would be Like lucas doing a recast with a Teen Han Solo without ford and changing everything we know about the star wars universe to make it all hip and modern for the teen audience. The millenium falcon would be some flashy computerized high tech ship and not the bucket of bolts we know.
Without the Farragut, Tarsus IV. Would James Kirk even be the James Kirk we know, my answer is no. He said in star trek V he needed his pain, that it made him who he was.
The trailer with the new kirk was painfully too much like another movie jj's buddy tom cruise starred in, Top Gun. I have a feeling that if cruise was not to old JJ would have cast him as Kirk.
I refuse to pay ten dollars for a cgi garbage, sci fi top gun ripoff.
Buckle Up he says on the trailer. How about walks out of theater in disgust and demands full refund.
I'll eat my words if in some bizarre twist of fate this movie is actually good and the trailer is supposed to throw us off by thinking it is garbage.
Remember Cloverfield's trailer was a trick, and the movie was a pig in a poke. We have to wait til 2009 to see if the same.
right on, man!