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“Star Trek Continues”: Fan-made episodes carry on the five-year mission

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Re: “Star Trek Continues”: Fan-made episodes carry on the five-year mission

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Good news, I'd also very much love to see a new series based on the "second" incarnation of Star Trek (TNG/Voyager/DS9), which for me is "the real Star Trek". I could never really suspend my disbelief with the 1st series...

Check Star Trek : Hidden Frontier. they are very old in this, and it's obvious that they do all with low budget, but they made seven seassons!!! And It get improving and getting more interesting in each seasson. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_Hidden_Frontier

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Maybe because it was too fun and watchable? The Onion review of the previous Star Trek movie feels perfect: http://www.theonion.com/video/trekkies-bash-new-star-trek-fi... ;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWLGH0VHUVs Red Letter Media's take on "Into Darkness". Yes, even as an action flick it sucks.

I guess reasonable people can disagree.

Maybe it falls apart if you look at it too closely or from a particular critical angle, but I would expect it to hold together than most broad-audience action pictures.

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Why didn't you like Into Darkness?

I liked it until I thought about it later. But while I was watching it I really really enjoyed it. Afterwards, I thought about it as a story and it didn't make much sense. I'm also still trying to figure out how Kirk is a captain of a star ship right out of the academy in a way that is plausible and doesn't require an actual antigravity machine to suspend my disbelief.

Farragut's first command was at age 12. He brought a captured British ship to port.

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Watched a few minutes and decided it's worth bookmarking. Maybe it can wash out the awful taste in my after watching "Into Darkness". I have to wonder about the IP issues. I didn't see anything on their site regarding what will stop CBS from going after them.

Why didn't you like Into Darkness?

It went out of its way to tie itself to Wrath of Khan, which only served to constantly remind me how much worse Into Darkness is as a movie than Wrath of Khan.

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I thought Firefly was a pretty good attempt, shame it didn't take off.

It was OK. I don't think it was better than TNG when it first came out.

Better or not is a personal preference. But the world it describes (much closer to our time, which also affects the technology), the kind of protagonists (regular folk, not associated with an all-mighty quasi-military governmental structure), the action (more personal, less "submarine in space"), and the issues (more political, and in general more grown-up, than Star Trek) do make it better for some viewers. (Disclaimer: myself included.)

Re: “Star Trek Continues”: Fan-made episodes carry on the five-year mission

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growing up, i liked startrek as vision of the future i can't follow this kind of fetishising of an outdated vision

  fetishising of an outdated vision
I think it makes sense. Still it is more interesting than just a kind of future-in-the-past exercise.

Re: “Star Trek Continues”: Fan-made episodes carry on the five-year mission

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Watched a few minutes and decided it's worth bookmarking. Maybe it can wash out the awful taste in my after watching "Into Darkness". I have to wonder about the IP issues. I didn't see anything on their site regarding what will stop CBS from going after them.

Why didn't you like Into Darkness?

(spoilers) It was absolutely awful. So many plot holes, so many abjectly stupid decisions by supposed geniuses, so much misuse of the classic Kirk/Spock relationship as though it exists at that point in the alternate timeline, and the ultimate move in bad taste... having Spock emotionally yell out "Kahn!".

I had countless moments in that film where I was snapped out of moment of watching a movie and checking my phone to see what time it was. Closest I've ever come to walking out of a scifi movie. Near the end of the film, I was desperately hoping that Kahn would kill them all.

Some really great explosions, though. Jerry Bruckheimer would be proud to produce such a fiasco. I expected better of Abrams.

Re: “Star Trek Continues”: Fan-made episodes carry on the five-year mission

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Why didn't you like Into Darkness?

It felt very derivative. It didn't really immerse you into the story that you would forget you were there.

Exactly. I was looking at the time every ten minutes, waiting for the lameness to end.
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