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To Boldly Go Where No One Has Gone Before
Blue Kitty:
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2XOLoeBPEk
Kugai:
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7yrtJPNhf0
ReindeerFlotilla:
The reboot has a few issues, but I don't really think they rise to the level of abandonment of the principles behind Star Trek.
The biggest issue being the fact that Kirk killed Nero's crew.
Beyond that, I just don't see the argument that it's not in line with the old vision.
Take The example of Kirk violating the Prime Directive. One of the themes of Into Darkness was that Kirk hadn't earned his command. Violating the Prime Directive wasn't cavalier throw away. It was Kirk establishing that he wasn't fit for the Center Seat. And Starfleet busted him to cadet for it. When Kirk hands the ship over to Spock, he admits that he doesn't belong in command. Sacrificing himself to save the ship is Kirk reaching the end of the journey: accepting the no win situation.
Argue that transwarp beaming makes starships obsolete and I will agree. They play too fast and too loose with the technology. The product placement drives along the thin line of going to far, as corporations don't make a lot of sense in the post money economy. But even things like the war hungry Starfleet officer are fully in line with trek as it was. We've seen such men. And Kirk and crew stopped them. Hell, even Mickey Smith bombing Seection 31 to save his child fits. Section 31 is basically the anti-Starfleet. It thinks it self above and beyond the morality that the rest of the federation is built on. Maybe Mickey had grown disillusioned with breaking the law for the greater good. Maybe he felt like saving his child's life that way was karmic payback.
I have issues with the new trek. But no more than I have had with old trek. I would like to see Star Trek go on to engage in the more thoughtful storytelling it is capable of. But I also recognize that it can't do that and be a summer popcorn movie. Movie goers were confused by Inception, for Geordi's sake!
Right now, slick action is what Hollywood sells. I'm happy if that slick action is Star Trek, because it keeps the door open for all kinds of sci-fi.
BenRG:
There are several excellent fan films for Star Trek on YouTUBE. I spent this weekend watching an animated trilogy (11 hours total) called 'Time Warp'. It wasn't a brilliantly original work of art (the fact that the animator couldn't find a voice cast and ended up voicing all the parts himself being particularly distracting). But the underlying story is well done. It could have done with tightening up in places but, overall, a Trek very much in the style of the golden age of TNG (season 4-6).
If it had a proper voice cast and the script was a bit more tightly edited, it would compare or even transcend the limp and flabby J J Abrams offerings. The characterisation is more generally likeable and sympathetic and, whilst pathetic in his motivations, the villain is far more interesting and believably threatening than the bald Romulan in ST-2009 or the False Khan of ST-ID.
IMHO, not only has the fandom sustained and maintained Trekdom during one loss of interest by The Powers That Be, it is quite possible that fan films and fan series may continue to sustain it during the current cynical period in official attitudes towards the show. Lots of people say this but, sometimes, it takes the fans to remind you why you loved a show. These fan works generally are better than the 'professional' productions at every level.
Kugai:
Speaking of Fan Based Vids, here's a little put together Fan Made featuring the Enterprise D
The Romulan Incident Pt.1
The Romulan Incident Pt.2
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