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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timelord: [QB] I have read many of the opinions voiced on this forum regarding the new Star Trek series. Much has already been said about lack of continuity and discrepancies concerning "established" Trek-universe history. My criticsm is that the new series is not very original. It breaks no real new ground but instead relies on retread material from previous incarnations of Trek. This has absolutely nothing to do with the actors and everything to do with the producers. First we borrowed the name of the most famous starship in "history." Why? In a vain effort to capture lost glory. I can't believe how many threads have been started hotly debating whether or not NCC 1701 was the FIRST ever starship to bear the name Enterprise, what is "canon" and what isn't, whether the NX-01 belongs to a "Earth Starfleet" of a "Federation Starfleet." Give it a rest, people. Everyone, everywhere knows that Kirk's ship was the FIRST STARSHIP ENTERPRISE. The only thing to throw this into question was the mind-bendingly UNORIGINAL decision to re-write trek history in an attempt to get more people to watch Brannon Braga's latest sad effort. End of story here. Point two - the NX-01 is nothing more than a kit-bashed Akira. This has been said before, but it is glaringly true. This ship doesn't look even remotely like a predecessor to the Constitution class. Matt Jeffries design of the 1701 is as beautiful and futuristic today as it was thirty years ago. While I wouldn't expect the sets to be as simplistic as those seen in the 60s, the ship's design is a major disappointment. Just a little effort could have produced a craft with a gritty, utilitarian realism that would have been perfectly believable as a starship of the not-too-distant future. Point three - Who designed the uniforms? Here we go again, borrowing design themes from other Treks because we haven't a glimmering of originality. Gee, a jumpsuit with rank pips, where have we seen that before? More retreads: A vulcan science officer - whether or not she's in Starfleet, this is a retread of the Kirk/Spock dynamic. Phlox is a Neelix retread - a goofy, good-natured alien. They even look alike. About the only attempt to be original was the theme music. Here's where they should have stuck with a fanfare but instead decided on a vocal track straight out of Dawson's Creek. (pardon me while I puke...) Someone in the forum suggested that the worst thing to happen to Star Trek is Brannon Braga and Rick Berman. I wholeheartedly agree. Star Trek under their care is degenerating into mindless space opera. Each new series gets further and further away from what I regard as Star Trek. I know that there are many who will gleefully accept any bit of televised pablum with "Star Trek" somewhere in the title, but that doesn't make it Star Trek. This latest attempt to appease the masses was obviously churned out as fast as possible and it shows. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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