WARNING: Star Trek rant ahead
Oct. 21st, 2008 06:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bloodsong1So thanks to our CO friends, we've been sent some pre-production pics of the new ST movie coming out next year.
For those of you who may not know, Paramount in it's *cough*infinite*/cough* wisdom, has decided to make another ST movie. Now this in itself is not a bad idea. I give you the premise:
K/S Starfleet Academy story. (and if there's any of that K/S, I will lose all faith in humanity)
Again, not a bad idea, if done correctly. But this is Paramount we're talking about, and they haven't done Star Trek right since season 4 of Voyager, with the brief, shining exception of season 4 of Enterprise.
Chekov is in it.
All right, Paramount, enough is enough. I realize you weren't directly responsible for Enterprise, that was handled by CBS and we all know what cutthroat bastards CBS can be. But for gods' sakes! MUST you fuck TOS with a barbed table leg? Chekov was an ensign. AN ENSIGN. As in about HALF THE AGE of Kirk and Spock and McCoy and I sincerely DOUBT Uhura was in their class. Scotty, maybe. MAYBE. Uhura and Chekov, not a chance in hell. Kirk was one of the youngest captains, but he wasn't bloody 24! He was 35!!! A good 14 YEARS after he graduated from the Acad emy.
Who gave you the asinine idea that you could screw the timeline with an Inquisition-like fanaticism? TOS is SACRED. TNG is SACRED. Those are the ones Gene was directly responsible for. DS9 and Voyager clung to his ideals, even with the Dread B&B in charge. Enterprise bloody well ignored thirty years of canon to serve their own greedy purposes. How DARE you continue this abomination?
I hope and pray that sometime, someone finds a way to save this franchise and SOON.
For those of you who may not know, Paramount in it's *cough*infinite*/cough* wisdom, has decided to make another ST movie. Now this in itself is not a bad idea. I give you the premise:
K/S Starfleet Academy story. (and if there's any of that K/S, I will lose all faith in humanity)
Again, not a bad idea, if done correctly. But this is Paramount we're talking about, and they haven't done Star Trek right since season 4 of Voyager, with the brief, shining exception of season 4 of Enterprise.
Chekov is in it.
All right, Paramount, enough is enough. I realize you weren't directly responsible for Enterprise, that was handled by CBS and we all know what cutthroat bastards CBS can be. But for gods' sakes! MUST you fuck TOS with a barbed table leg? Chekov was an ensign. AN ENSIGN. As in about HALF THE AGE of Kirk and Spock and McCoy and I sincerely DOUBT Uhura was in their class. Scotty, maybe. MAYBE. Uhura and Chekov, not a chance in hell. Kirk was one of the youngest captains, but he wasn't bloody 24! He was 35!!! A good 14 YEARS after he graduated from the Acad emy.
Who gave you the asinine idea that you could screw the timeline with an Inquisition-like fanaticism? TOS is SACRED. TNG is SACRED. Those are the ones Gene was directly responsible for. DS9 and Voyager clung to his ideals, even with the Dread B&B in charge. Enterprise bloody well ignored thirty years of canon to serve their own greedy purposes. How DARE you continue this abomination?
I hope and pray that sometime, someone finds a way to save this franchise and SOON.
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Date: 2008-10-22 01:13 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2008-10-24 12:55 am (UTC)At least, that's my understanding.
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Date: 2008-10-23 05:44 pm (UTC)Great... now I have the images of an animated "ST:TOS Babies" show in my head... and I just can't stop laughing!
-Jellisky
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Date: 2008-10-24 12:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-25 04:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-27 02:05 am (UTC)But that's just a rumor. At least Star Wars has Clone Wars.