Easy steps to make Star Trek unwatchable

POSTED BY: OPPYH
UPDATED: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 19:20
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OPPYH

Sunday, April 11, 2010 2:28 PM

Easy steps to make Star trek unwatchable:

-Cancellation. Enterprise, and TOS were cut short because ratings were not good enough for the networks approval.

-Brannon Braga. He wonders how he alone could be responsible for the death of a Trek series. quick answer buddy: TECHNO BABBLE. Somehow he managed to eliminate imagination in the series(His early TNG stories were abysmal) in favor of scientific mumbo jumbo, that made the viewers response to his episodes "as boring as watching paint dry". He single handedly made Voyager sub par, and ran Enterprise into a wall.

-Xindi story ark in Enterprise.....yup that will do it.

Anyone got more to add?

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WHOZIT

Sunday, April 11, 2010 4:14 PM

I agree, how many times have I seen "Enterprise" and said to myself, I've seen this story before. I think the mistake they made with "Enterprise" was they were more interested in action and FX and less on personal storys of the crew. They should have began the show with more storys about 1st contacts and them bumbling around. (spilling soup in some big shots lap, etc) They could have had a little more fun.

I think this new "STAR TREK" may work since they're starting fresh. They're in going a different direction, I just hope they don't go to far off the path that made the original a "classic".

PEACEKEEPER

Sunday, April 11, 2010 4:40 PM

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Originally posted by OPPYH:
Easy steps to make Star trek unwatchable:

Anyone got more to add?

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Umm, putting one second of it onto a tv screen.I'm sorry, but I must be one of the few people here that absolutely hates Star trek.It's all techno babble, with no discernible character specialties whatsoever.The original series was watchable, but that's about it.

Peacekeeper---keeping order in every verse!!!

LWAVES

Sunday, April 11, 2010 5:18 PM

Too many filler episodes where something goes wrong with the holodeck.
How many times have they been in mortal danger, seconds away from death, when someone has the 'bright' idea of re-routing energy from somewhere, modifying the amplitude (or whatever) of some gizmo etc etc. The main culprit of this being the deflector shield array thingy that seems so adaptable it could probably make you breakfast as well.

I really like TOS it's a classic. I like later DS9, some Voyager is okay (I stress the 'some'), Enterprise is lacklustre and rewrote too much history and TNG was badly acted and boring (see holodeck malfunctions as a major problem with this show).

"I don't believe in suicide, but if you'd like to try it it might cheer me up to watch."

OPPYH

Sunday, April 11, 2010 5:40 PM

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Originally posted by lwaves:

How many times have they been in mortal danger, seconds away from death, when someone has the 'bright' idea of re-routing energy from somewhere, modifying the amplitude (or whatever) of some gizmo etc etc.

Haha...you just described 90% of Voyager(and alot of TNG).

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MEATPUPPET42

Sunday, April 11, 2010 6:32 PM

How TNG stayed on the air especially with that gay ass background music in the first season I will never know. They feed us this crap and cancel firefly WTF?

I love it! It's like wiping your ass with silk.

FREMDFIRMA

Sunday, April 11, 2010 7:59 PM

Fanservice at the expense of plot - Enterprise was notorious for that kinda thing.

Kirk, well, kirk could get AWAY with that, it was part of his character, so much that being called up short on it (finally!) in ST6 rolled me outta the chair - and it never came at the expense of the story, so when Enterprise couldn't cut it on story, they went to that kinda stuff instead, and Voyager wasn't immune to it neither, grrr.

I hated that they took a promising storyline, the breaking of the vulcan strangehold and birth of the federation, and took it off in a really badly done arc which was a thinly veiled copy of the same lameass tripe 24(which I hated) ran off of, the aforementioned xindi arc.

And of course, the whole retcon/time travel thing, in combination with the technogibberish, which is yoinked straight out of the very worst comic book plotlines from the lowest historical point of their already pathetic quality.

But I think the absolute worst of it ?
Trying to take themselves too seriously - if you're gonna do space opera ham and cheese, then bring it ON, don't try to pretend it's art instead of entertainment!

I'd rather watch Shatner chewing the scenery than watch Enterprise try to turn obvious fanservice into some half-ass pretend-serious "relationship" right out of a truly abysmal soap opera...

I do gotta hand it to the 2009 Trek though, I never in a million years thought ANYONE could come up with a younger, convincing Kirk, but Pine laid the smack down, right down to the truly obnoxious personal arrogance that made Kirk charming, and grating, at the same time - and Karl Urban had me half convinced he *WAS* Deforest Kelly, seriously.

And that's Kirk, in a nutshell, innit ?

-F

CHRISISALL

Sunday, April 11, 2010 11:45 PM

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Originally posted by Fremdfirma:

I'd rather watch Shatner chewing the scenery than watch Enterprise try to turn obvious fanservice into some half-ass pretend-serious "relationship" right out of a truly abysmal soap opera...

I do gotta hand it to the 2009 Trek though, I never in a million years thought ANYONE could come up with a younger, convincing Kirk, but Pine laid the smack down, right down to the truly obnoxious personal arrogance that made Kirk charming, and grating, at the same time - and Karl Urban had me half convinced he *WAS* Deforest Kelly, seriously.

And that's Kirk, in a nutshell, innit ?

*Penultimate post on this thread*

The laughing Chrisisall

ALIASSE

Monday, April 12, 2010 12:08 AM

Rubbery-looking bodies. All of the cast of Enterprise had rubbery, orangey bodies apart from the doctor. *tries to half-look at screen, repulsed by site of rubbery, orangey bodies, switches off*

MENDUR

Monday, April 12, 2010 3:51 PM

I'm going to go in a different direction.

Easy two-step to make Star Trek unwatchable:

1. Create a prequel series ("Enterprise") which locks certain events in place, then
2. Create a movie ("Star Trek") which gives everybody the same names but makes them act completely differently than the way they've acted for the last 40 years.

Would it have killed them to just create new characters to follow? For example: have the time traveller kill/disperse the entire original crew and find out who would have stepped up to the line of fire to take their places? Instead, we have actors doing impersonations of other actors in the role.

Heh. You may begin yelling at me ... now.

The Codex Menduri: http://mendur.blogspot.com

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