timdiggerm said:

FanFiltration said:

I want to know why it's called "Star Trek", yet most of the films take place around Earth. Let's get out into deep space! You know, that place where no one has gone before. Generations & Insurrection seem to be the only two films in the franchise that do not include any Earth bound segments. And that is excluding the Earth holodeck scene in Generations.

Because films have to appeal to a broader audience than the tv show. People care more about Earth than they do about other planets.

The only Star Trek film that drew in a significant number of 'outsiders' was the hilarious comedy with the gays, it was barely Star Trek.

A) Studios need to know their property and stop mis-selling it. If you want something with mass appeal stop jigging things without mass appeal to appeal to masses. They will end up appealing to invisible silent people with no money.

B) Audience do weird things, just because you have made what you think is a niche product it doesn't mean it won't have run away mass appeal (nobody is going to see a Space Opera with the word War in the title with a monkey and a couple of robots as main characters in, not in 1977 they won't).