No I was “implying” that I wish I could get some good new Star Trek and not silly fan service. That was the important point there I was trying to make. Sorry I wasn’t clear. Really, really sorry.

Yeah, that’s why people still love it over 50 years after its creation. Great point, well made.

For Abrams Trek. Star Trek will outlive Bad Robot, Paramount, and CBS’ blunders. Someday someone who really understands it will move Trek into the future, and not keep dragging it backwards.

You know I said “Trek creators” which covers all those people so thanks for wasting my time and yours.

I think modern Trek creators need to stop wasting time on cutesy nonsensical Easter eggs and focus more on smart, original storytelling about a hopeful future exploring space and humanity.

Flak jackets and zap-rifles that look like real rifles. They could put those on and stand in a New York City subway station at rush hour and no one could tell them apart from our post-9/11 over militarized police.

I do not approve of the militarization of Star Fleet/ Star Trek. I get that Discovery takes place before TOS and TNG, maybe relations with the Klingons or someone else was rougher- I get that. Body armor for Away Teams might make sense sometimes. I get that. But Star Trek used to be a positive, hopeful vision of a…

Starships should look cool, but they should also make some kind of sense...

Why is it the American Godzilla? I’m not looking for a Shin Godzilla, but something a little more Godzilla 2000?

Gene Roddenberry’s “Spectre”. A TV movie/pilot from the 70's about an occult detective who travels the world fighting demons and magical threats. Lwaxanna Troi, Majel Roddenberry, plays Lilith, his mysterious magic assistant, and The War Doctor, a very young John Hurt, is a millionaire playboy. Bryan Fuller should be…

It’s animation. That’s all. They cover all the animated major movie releases (mostly American).

I’ve been having a really hard time seeing full articles or any comments on the site this morning. They should have posted something on the Facebook page so I could have known it wasn’t just me.

I think Mafarland’s show looks too much like the Trek we’ve already seen, but it’s a comedy that is poking fun at Trek so I hope it will be good.

Thank you! Yes, you can update it, but still make it look uniquely Trek.

Totally ok with them updating the fabric and design- just make it look like someone’s seen and has some feeling for the series they’re doing a prequel to.

Naw, I think it’s just the way things look now. Action scenes have lens flare AND shakey-cam AND grit flying in the air. Super-costumes have textures upon textures. Comics are over-rendered with Photoshop filters and textures.

I’d say I’m disappointed but it’s pretty much what I was expecting so far. Nothing new or exciting, a focus on war instead of exploration, and the only things that seem different are pointless, anachronistic changes.

Oh yeah! Sarek and Amanda are characters on the show. Good catch!

This year I went to Forbidden Planet in NYC. They passed out bags with all the comics. It was glorious. I was so grateful I bought a $30 graphic novel.

Watching a CGI robot truck fight CGI robot whatevers is like watching nothing doing nothing against nothing. I wish io9 would stop posting about this stupid franchise.