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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Banshee16" data-source="post: 4708454" data-attributes="member: 7883">Not that I've seen all the episodes, but I was always under the impression that the Star Trek movies were always more action packed than the TV shows were.  I don't seem to remember the Enterprise being destroyed nearly as often in the shows as has happened in the movies.  But I think I've only seen three of the movies...First Contact, Insurrection, and Nemesis.  And I remember one where they beamed up some great blue whales, and Spoke was wearing a headband to cover his ears.  And I think I've seen pieces of Wrath of Khan.  And one where Spock became a child again, or something.  Admittedly, a lot of the earlier Star Trek stuff kind of bored me so I usually turned it off before finishing the movies.  That's why I'll admit to not being a huge fan.  I mean, I would watch it if it was on, but it was never my first choice.I have no issues with cerebral movies....Star Trek just didn't jive for me.  Given the past 2000 years of history, I always had trouble conceptualizing a future where people were mainly getting along, instead of finding new and ingenious ways to slaughter each other with better weapons than we have now.  And the whole having sex with aliens thing.....given our knowledge of evolution, reproductive barriers between separate species etc. I thought it was kind of silly that Kirk would be getting it on with all these alien woman who looked like normal women, but with blue skin and antennas or something.....I mean, if we ever do run into another intelligent species, who's to say that their gender organs won't be in their arm pits or something? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />That doesn't mean light sabers et all are any more realistic....but Star Wars did have action.....and fencing <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  But just to be very clear....this is all my opinion....just because I've never been a huge fan, doesn't mean I'm criticizing those who are....it just wasn't really for me.  I think the new movie looks interesting, and hope it's as good as it looks.I have no idea if it'll be as cerebral as the older material.  Of course, given it's a movie trailer, it's possible that the movie has taken the key action sequences, and highlighted them, in order to generate hype, and in actuality, those sequences are spread out through 2 hours.But if rebooting it like this saves the franchise, then great.....it would suck to see Star Trek permanently die.  Maybe, to get new fans, they have to change things.  Sometimes it sucks when you like the original, but times change, and unfortunately, what people like doesn't always remain the same.  I've seen with some shows that I've liked that more action and/or comedy variants of them seem to have done better than the originals, which were more cerebral....I think to "Reaper", which seems awfully close to an older show, "Brimstone", that I really, really liked.....Brimstone was far more cerebral, but just didn't seem to catch on.  At their roots, the two shows seem to share a lot of similarities, but the tone is very different.Banshee</blockquote>

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