Roger Ebert’s review of Star Trek: Nemesis is oustanding: hilarious, heart-wrenching. Spot-on. (Slashdot discussion.)
I used to love Star Trek. I grew up watching the original series in re-runs every Sunday at 4 p.m. on channel 12. For nearly two decades!
I video taped every episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. I audio taped every episode. I had little forms that I filled out as I watched the episodes, noting which recurring minor characters appeared in the episode (Lwaxana Troi! O’Brien!), which recurring subplots resurfaced (Worf’s family is dishonored! Data wants to be human!), etc. etc. I rated every episode. I was thrilled by the Borg, amused by Q. I even liked Wesley Crusher, and defended him to my friends. When Star Trek: Deep Space Nine debuted, I followed it with equal fanaticism.
Then came Star Trek: Voyager. The premise of the show seemed promising, but the first season was terrible. On 19 June 1995 I posted my disgust to rec.arts.startrek.current and basically gave up on the franchise.
Voyager limped through its seven year run with ever-dwindling audiences. Paramount tried to pimp the new series, Star Trek: Enterprise, as a return to the swashbuckling adventures of old. I watched half of the first season (and scattered episodes since), but from what I’ve seen, it’s just more of the same old shit.
Every Star Trek fan knows what needs to be done to fix the franchise: jettison Rick Berman, who has single-handedly destroyed that which we once loved.
I can’t wait to get Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn on DVD.
I just wish that there was away to get the people who have the power to listen, but their is no way. So much to teach and no students. The star trek world is going the way of our country. To the bottom, lead by people with no vision and not willing to listen.
This video was taken whilst at the summer Memorabilia convention in Birmingham, UK. On stage are Marina Sirtis, Garret Wong, and Robin Curtis. After being asked what the future of Star Trek is on TV, Garret gives a possibly too honest answer.
(Filmed by David G. Paul of New Earth Online, http://www.newearthonline.co.uk)
Hi I am fan from Germany and I really can’t believe why so much people hate Star Trek Enterprise. It was a very courageously project which was very good, I think. I hated all that episodes of unrealistic and unspectacular content, especialy in TNG. The first 2 Voyager seasons were quite borring. DSN9 became interesting when the Defiant arrived the station. The most interesting part was the Dominion Wars season. Enterprise broke with all this borring seek out for new life and civilization imbecility. It shows a part of us we don’t want to see. he dark sides of our selfes. I never understood the incompetence of starfleet in the 24th century. Their security teams are without bodyarmour, they even had no headsets and alltogether their equipment was very poor. It is a phenomenon that you even can see in Enterprise. Their computer systems have poor security options. And everyone who wants could get the control over the ship. There is much incompetence at work I must say.
But the positive aspect of Enterprise is more wisdom about the political situation at this time. I wished the producers would have more consequent with the other series. Mankind looks very weak, inconsequent and naive in all the series. And everyone who watch it wants to believe humans are like that. But this would never be so. It is the AAmerican Dream or Way that should look honorable and the wisdom of a better world. Look at Iraq and see the American Dream. So will be our future too. Now look at Enterprise and you will see what it means to be a terrestrian.
Rick Berman just destroyed the history… utterly. And the basic moral foundation that the Federation and Starfleet had once stood for. Now, they’re shady… not the utopia we once knew it to be. Like in “Time’s Arrow” when Twain goes on to Deanna Troi about the opulence of the Enterprise and asks how the poor people in squalor back on Earth… she told him about a vast Federaton of Planets that was united for the same reasons… to help other advanced civilizations… civilizations more advanced than anything humanity will ever achieve in its short time on Earth.
Sure, I did enjoy the political intrigue of DS9… but it really disillusioned me as to what my beloved Federation stood for, sometimes.
As for Voyager and Enterprise… I loved voyager, it was tits. And it kinda set the premise for the temporal… police. or whatever. You know it was gonna happen somehow… look at the Krenim. And the episodes with Captain Braxton featured in them.
He (and his writers.. quite a few of whom have starred in the show) had given themselves the license to do so.
Point is… in the Star Trek Universe there is Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations.
Sure, they screwed up Gene’s history line… but at least Star Trek lived on after Roddenberry.