And, I’m no Trekkie geek, but I do recall Vulcans living for some several hundred years. By this story line, which appears to have Spock at about 15 years old, Kirk’s grand-daddy would still be throwing blocks at his mother!

Perhaps if we reverse the polarity there’ll be time to stop the cheapening by proxy the entire Trek storyline.

This one looks to be something of the reset variety, although, with Nimoy’s little time twist, it may just be more rehashing of the original rather than a true reset. We’ll find out when this new era reaches a point where it intersects the old.

Sometimes something that has gone on for a long time, with the good and the bad, should just be able to rest. Or convalesce. Recycle what’s there without reinventing it.

These whole “re-imaginings” should stick to material that caught on, was short and never quite lived up to its promise in the first time (ala Battlestar Galactica). Leave the successful with umpteen spinoffs out of it. =P

I do agree that the casting of Spock is very good, at least physically. I don’t know how great the writing will be.

now that’s a scottie i can belive in.
also, i can totally see Young Kirk breaking people’s shit because he could. Most of the time kirk was a dick, but was kinda doing people a favour.

like house, only with the ability to destroy worlds and travel through time.

oh and

Enterprise – we need to retcon everything and explain the inconcistances by starting the series out with a big ass time war, instead of starting small and then heading to the big reveal.

Enterprise – killed because no one wanted to take some time with it. if any of the treks needed to have the b5 “we’ve got a plan for x years already” doen it was this one, then they could have played around with the timeline and when the nerdrage came hard and heavy just sit back, smiled and said “wait a bit. you may not like it, but we promise it’ll make sense.”

also, the enterprise pair of episodes with the mirror world? pretty groovy.

also also, andorans fuckn’ rock (but only because they get Herbert West, Reanimator (jeffery combs) as thier signature character)

TNG
Prime Directive blah blah blah blah. They changed it from a tv show to a political statement.

DS9
Originally the Ferengi were supposed to be incredibly mean evil creatures but ended up becoming tiny Rodney Dangerfields with big ears. They changed the concept of the show from a political statement to an extreme political statement.

Voyager
You are all so bad I am forced to discipline you, but believe me it hurts me more than it will hurt you. Oh yah, men are evil pigs. The show totally sucked until they brought in a Borg woman with GIANT breast implants. They never did explain why the Borg needed giant breast implants either.

Enterprise
Never ever did bother watching it. Is it still on?

http://construed.wordpress.com/2008/11/18/the-new-face-of-star-trek-is-no-hero/

Fuck yeah. Thanks for the link, Scott.

clip goes unwatched for me.

also, /agree with Patrick Stewart really coming into his own in later seasons of TNG, I think Voyager did pretty well too with the “ooh shiny” crowd (as it was the first Star Trek series to use CG for their space scenes rather then models, iirc).