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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Orius" data-source="post: 2128056" data-attributes="member: 8863">Keeping it in the 24th century would have had some interesting potential from the events of DS9, but I think the whole idea of doing prequels  was in vogue or something when Voyager ended.  Not that I think it was a bad direction for them to take.Hmm perhaps, but I think maybe the fans deserve some amount of blame too.  There's a lot of people out there in fandom that bitch about every little thing possible, and the Internet has magnified that tendancy greatly.  Not just Star Trek too, read Whisperfoot's rant at the beginning of  the "The Problem with Star Wars" thread.  Too put it bluntly, I think fandom is its own worst enemy because it wants more of what it likes, doesn't know what that "more" is, and then bitches and moans when it doesn't get what it wants, which is all the time because it doesn't know what it wants.  Not to mention most of these fans are armchair critcs as well.  WRT Star Trek, the problem is that the fans are in disagreement with what Star Trek "should" be doing.  I've read plenty of Star Trek posts here over the last few years, and if the content here is indicative of the larger community, the fans are clearly divided.  Some like the idea of a prequel, some don't.  Some think (I'll call them the Trek grognards) that TOS was the only real Trek and that everything after it sucked.  When the fans can't even agree on what they want, it divides the fan base which is the foundation fo Trek support.  Like I said above, this isn't just Star Trek, it's all of Sci-Fi/fantasy fandom.  I'm perhaps a little guilty of some of this myself, though for the most part I liked Enterprise, I liked the new Star Wars films, I like the 3.x D&D rules, etc.I'm not entirely blaming the fans though.  I still think that bad writing and lackluster network support played pretty important roles in the decline of Trek as well.</blockquote>

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