I saw 40 minutes of one of them once. They lost me at building the fucking starship on the ground in a field like a barn or something. For as fast and loose as Trek plays with physics, ignoring the obvious problems inherent with that for the sake of a plot point was a bridge too far for me.
That I could forgive. What bothered me most was Kirk’s entire character arc, which went approximately as follows:
Be a criminal fuck-up with emotional problems.
Become Starfleet cadet (because nepotism?).
Fuck up some more, and mutiny.
???
Get appointed captain?!?!?!?!?!!?!??!?!?!?
Kirk should’ve been thrown out the fucking airlock when Spock had the chance. Or at least ended up court-martialed and in a penal colony.
Oh, and by the way, Scotty invented a teleporter that worked at intersteller distances, which rendered the entire premise of the franchise – TREKKING between STARS – moot!
Theres a huge difference between a “bad boy” and a competent leader that bends the rules to accomplish big picture goals. Bad boys are largely unsustainable and they can only have a redemption arc long term. A bad boy doesn’t reprogram Tue Kobayashi Maru to be the only person ever to succeed. They break the simulator and get a technicality D-.
I saw 40 minutes of one of them once. They lost me at building the fucking starship on the ground in a field like a barn or something. For as fast and loose as Trek plays with physics, ignoring the obvious problems inherent with that for the sake of a plot point was a bridge too far for me.
That I could forgive. What bothered me most was Kirk’s entire character arc, which went approximately as follows:
Kirk should’ve been thrown out the fucking airlock when Spock had the chance. Or at least ended up court-martialed and in a penal colony.
Oh, and by the way, Scotty invented a teleporter that worked at intersteller distances, which rendered the entire premise of the franchise – TREKKING between STARS – moot!
Theres a huge difference between a “bad boy” and a competent leader that bends the rules to accomplish big picture goals. Bad boys are largely unsustainable and they can only have a redemption arc long term. A bad boy doesn’t reprogram Tue Kobayashi Maru to be the only person ever to succeed. They break the simulator and get a technicality D-.
Not to mention an entire universe history of them being assembled in orbit.