skyjedi2005 said:
The thing is how often do you see a studio delibretely going about alienating its existing fanbase.

By saying this is not your father's star trek. They are pretty much flipping the bird at original series fans, the ones who they promised a return to classic treks roots. And they want to have it both ways anyway to be a reboot and not. To fuck with the fans and then try and placate them by putting Leonard Nimoy into the movie.

Exactly. No matter how good this movie is as your generic explosion filled, orgasm of the senses, sci-fi flick, it made the mistake of alienating the people who really care about the series, and basically told them, f you, we are going for the mass appeal on this one gents.

What is really dumb are all the people out there who feel that real ST fans don't have the right to feel a bit pissed. This exact same movie could have been made without flipping the bird at the fans. They might have still felt that it sucked, but they wouldn't have felt like they had J.J. Abram's piss spraying them in the face, with all these advertisements basically saying, "Hey fans! Guess what? (drops pants) SUCK ON THAT!!! Nah nah nah nah nah naaaah!"

I am not a big Trekkie, but I can sympathize with them. In know SW is a bad example, because it too was basicially destroyed for the sake of bringing in more cash too. But imagine if the adds for the prequel had went on, almost tauntingly, "This isn't the Star Wars you grew up with!" "Forget all you know about Star Wars" "If you are a Star Wars fan, don't go to see this because all the cool kids will be there and they don't want to have to stare at your ugly nerdy face!" etc.