I don’t mind the concept of alternate realities, it’s just that Star Trek is supposed to be optimistic and positive and the Mirror episodes are... not. The reboot movies I enjoy as fun action, but not in the same vein as the original universe.

Yeah, and honestly DS9 may have overdone it. TOS and Enterprise both only had one real Mirror excursion, but when DS9 kept coming back it just got old.

some of those films may become illegal, come January... :)

That alternate reality from ST-TNG, “Parallels,” where the Borg has kicked everyone’s ass and Riker from that reality is basically begging not to go back didn’t seem like any place I’d want to spend any time.

Diffration spikes, not lens flares. It’s not like JJ Abrams put the image together. THEN it would have lens flares.

I’m in that small camp of goofballs that likes TMP at least as much as WoK...

Please, please let the show be in the Prime Universe. I’d be ok with the movies being in the Kelvin timeline if that meant we got TNG-DS9 level quality Trek on television again. (Or perhaps even of higher quality, since we’re in the golden age of television after all.)

Thumb out!

“Anyway, it’s 1:6th scale, which makes it 24 inches tall, 10 inches wide, and two inches deep;”

I catch a lot of shit from people whenever I say this, but I’ll say it again anyway... I know the universal speed limit is the speed of light, but we have a long history of both overcoming what we understand to be limitations and rewriting what we thought were limitations but actually weren’t.

This is a trope that feels like it should have its own name. “The Pixar Overlay”, perhaps? ‘Toy Story’ seems to be as good a starting point as any for the “so and such has its own private culture when you’re not looking that’s basically a formalized and systematized explanation for them with plenty of in-jokes.”

I’m with the author - the worst is a successful but horrible Trek, as it would poison Trek forever. A good Trek killed prematurely is still good Trek.

Sadly I think that it is soon likely that we’ll live in a world where no living person has walked on the moon. Unless the Chinese somehow manage to make it there within the next decade I fear that this will probably be the case. Why what should have been the first steps in a long-term exploration of the moon ended up…

With reboots and time travel now all the rage, maybe it’s time for a new Voyagers! series? Time travel AND a history lesson.

Another key difference is that Star Trek is about The Unknown. Unkown planets, unknown physics, unknown aliens. It is about discovery, in both a practical and a more primal sense, and the setting of our main characters is in a small part of the galaxy, where they are one of many competing powers.

Star Trek: Science Fiction

There’s also the fact that Star Wars is a myth. It’s not meant to be taken as an extrapolation of our present reality (the opening line “long ago, in a galaxy far, far away” is a warning against such thinking) and as such, every aspect of its “sci-fi” aesthetics, from the ships to the planets to the lightsabers, are…

Star Wars is Tolkein-ee Fantasy in space. Star Trek is science fiction.

1) “In the vicinity of Mars” is meaningless in this context, Mars is a planet and consequently moves against the backdrop of stars “fixed” on the celestial field.

Another one I’d add to the list: