New Star Trek Trailer

[Neo]

I think it looks great. Hopefully it will breath some new life into the Trek franchise. I think I've gotten over the whole rewriting history part of it. The jury is still out on whether this should be viewed as the new canon or if it's kind of like a parallel universe. Abrams simply said it was a "reintroduction", whatever that means.

It will be successful if the movie concentrates on the characters rather than on the action. In a Star Trek movie, the action should always be the backdrop, not the main feature. One of the original producers (Berman or Braga) said that Star Trek was primarily about the action. This philosophy is what lead to the cow patties known as Insurrection and Nemesis. I know First Contact had a ton of action, but it only served to create drama and interesting story lines for the characters since the Borg are their arch enemies.

At its core, Star Trek has always been a show about morality. Being in space and flying around in ships are just the backdrop. If you reverse that, you just get another cookie-cutter mind-numbing series of action scenes. Oh, and they need to start using actual models again instead of CGI'ing all the ships. All that computer generated shit shuts my brain down.