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Star Trek Thoughts, Spoilerrific and Un-
(also posted to /.)

On the styling: someone's been watching way too much BSG; Starfleet ships are not supposed to look steam powered. That engine room was ridiculous.

On canon: Robert April, call your agent.

On prequels: WTF is wrong with going forward with the 24th century? I took about five minutes to come up with the following idea for a new series, which I hereby place into the public domain: in the Voyager finale, Janeway brought working transwarp back from the Delta Quadrant, making it feasible to visit other galaxies for the first time. Put the epic multi-year arcs on hold for a while and go back to the roots, one ship, episodically exploring strange new worlds, seeking out new life and new civilizations, one per week. (Unfortunately it can't really be called Star Trek: Andromeda, as that would confuse the hell out of everyone, but I'm sure they can come up with a suitable name.)

Or do something about Section 31, or something about Romulan politics, or something about the Mirror Universe. There are forty years of continuity here to play with, I fail to see why they're so eager to throw them away and start over.



I suppose everyone's trying to avoid posting spoilers, but doesn't anyone else think the single biggest problem with the movie is that they BLEW UP VULCAN!?!?! I mean really, casual genocide of one of the most important races in Trek? WTF?