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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mr Fixit" data-source="post: 6398018" data-attributes="member: 6779654">Concerning Trek, but pertinent to this discussion as well, it should be noted that taking fan outrage and their delicate sensibilities too seriously isn't always a way to go. Deep Space Nine, for instance, was thought of among many fans as a betrayal of Gene Roddenberry's universe yet is currently widely regarded as the best Trek of them all. Though... those Abrams movies? Yeah, run for the hills! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> The re-imagined Battlestar Galactica? Probably among the best sci-fi shows of the last 15 years, yet the hatred of the original fans was astounding. Edward James Olmos even received death threats!The point? It's a difficult road, balancing fan expectations with authors' own ideas of where a creative endeavour should next go. It's tempting yet ill-advised to assume superiority of one viewpoint over the others. Perhaps all of us should be a little bit more accommodating in these matters.</blockquote>