C3PX said:I think this is why they decided to go back so far for Star Trek: Enterprise, rather than doing something like a pre-Cage NCC-1701, because they didn't want to have to worry about messing with pre-established characters, vessels and events. By going back so far, they avoided, for the most part, exactly what we see going wrong npw. Had Enterprise been with April or Pike's crew, we'd be saying that the Enterprise looks nothing like the one from the cafe and so on.
if they did Apri's missions, the NCC 1701 would not have too look like the NCC 1701 we know from TOS.
one of the problems with ST: ENT is that in the 4 seasons it never changed or grew. On ST: ENT, The NX-01 never was retrofitted to look and feel more like a TOS ships, The Uniform never Change from all blue to all TOS colors or even from the One-piece jump suit to a two-piece uniform like TOS and so on. It was like the people working on the show (1-3) were bull-headed and trying to force thier visions on to fans (sounds like Abrams). The 4th season saw story change, but it was too little, too late. After The time War ended the show needed Big change not little. The time-line reset in Storm Front pt. 2 was the best time to have ST: ENT change to become more like TOS, but the writers miss it.
This is a reboot, that essentially lacks the balls to take itself as a reboot. Some sort of separation anxiety perhaps? Afraid to let go of the hand of pre-existing Trek and fly on its own. That doesn't bode well for it. Superman Returns was the last reboot I can remember that couldn't quite bring itself to let go of pre-existing canon and truely start over, and the end result was a disaster to say the least.
yes, my thoughts are the same.
It lacks the balls to take itself fully as a reboot, It lacks the balls to take itself fully as a Prequel, It lacks the balls to take itself fully as a re-imaged and It lacks the balls to take itself fully as a Sequel.
Abrams' trek seems so half-a**, messy and weak.
no wonder why, I see Abrams as a wimpy punk.
ST: ENT had way more balls then Abrams' trek.
ST: ENT was a Prequel (no ifs, ands or buts about it) and NOT some odd mix of reboot/Prequel/Sequel/re-imaged like the Abrams' trek or Superman Returns.