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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elf Witch" data-source="post: 3284616" data-attributes="member: 9037">I was talking with one of my best friends today. We met 30 years ago at a Trek con and a life long friendship came out of it.We talked about why we are both so bummed about this project. For her she feels that another important part of her life is being conscripted by people who were most likely not even around or old enough to be involved during TOS day. She was very involved with running cons in the 70s and ran several Trek clubs. She was personal friends with Jimmy Doohan. Trek in the 70s was a major part of her life.She also was also a big Battlestar Galactica fan and was heavily involved in several actors fan clubs and enjoys a personal relentionship with several. She was involved in trying to help raise the money for Richard Hatch's short preview shoot for his idea of a continuation of the show. She like a lot of the TOSBSG fans put time in trying to get the studio to see that BSG was still a viable project and finally it looked like we might get it , then 9/11 happaned and the project got delayed amd then  Moore got his hands on it and we ended with what we have now.It not so much that the show is so different that what we wanted, Its all the crap that went down before the show even aired you had one of the actor's telling the old fans "don't bother watching the new show" Moore didn't even bother to talk to any of the actors who were involved with the old show. Over the years the actors had been on a ride that yes we are doing it with you guys to no we are not ( Singer at first) to a change of heart from Singer because of fan pressue then to not only are you not wanted for the new project but we want to do another show entirely. Fans in the know knew all this before the miniseries ever showed.A lot of them had been involved in BSG for 26 years at this point and felt a great bitterness. We already knew that most of us now fell out of the demographic of what the studios want for their viewers and our opinions and taste don't matter at all anymore. But then you has the new fans of the show just rubbed salt into the wounds.They were dismissive and scornful of the older fans and the older show. On BSG forums it was like a warzone. You had to hear crap like the old show sucked, it was cheesy ,the actors couldn't act. It split the fandom up. Several long running boards kicked off any discussion of the new show. And it was impossible to go onto some of the forums for the new show and say you were an old fan but also liked the new show, but there were something you liked better on the show and some that you liked better on the new show. If you just mentioned the old show your opinion was labeled as being a troll.The worse offenders of this were mostly young people who had not been born or old enough to have watched the show the show when it was first on or they were kids who remember running around in the playyard yelling "by my command".At a con in California some of the new actors were at an autograph table next to some of the old actors. My friend was there helping run that table.  There were sercal fans enough to have made the day unpleasant who felt the need to speak loudly telling the new actors how wonderful they were and how great the show was and how they were not fans of the awful cheesy 70s show. It was uncomfertable for the new actors and the old actors. These young fans didn;t seem to grasp the simple concept that if it had not been for the cheesy old 70s show and the fans who kept it alive they would not have the show they loved today.So for my friend she is afraid that this will happen in Trek fandom. Because there is no way that TOS will look as good as ahow made today. Because we live in a different time the storied will be better and the original will be labeled cheesy. Some young Trek fans already do this.We both remember the tension with some of the fans of Next Gen back in the early days. It smoothed out after awhile mainly beacuse you had the tOS movies being made at the same time and there was no internet to spread the flames. In the end it became we are all Trek fans. In my long winded way I guess what I am saying is that for some of us who are more than just fans who watch the show but have parts of our life heavily involved in the actual fandom of the show feel a lot of unease over this. We don't want to see Trek fandom split like BSG fandom.</blockquote>

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