The Utopian perfect world vibe?
No, I dig that; my sci-fi tastes are kinna old-school.
The lack of a story line? (TOS, TNG and in part VOY).
Naw, I was mostly okay with that too. I do like a show with continuity, but there are also times I actually long for something episodic. Balance between the two makes me happy.
I already gathered you're more of a fan of Babylon 5 type scifi, right? Which was good no doubt.
Babylon 5 kicks booty.
The new Trek movie really is awesome.
And it solved a lot of what I didn't like about the original. Maybe not
everything, but enough that I actually--*gasp*--went out and got a copy of it on DVD. (There are some folks who know my
true opinions about
Star Trek who would find that fact shocking, frankly.)
Nah, it wasn't really any of the above. I have something of a laundry list of complaints:
- Ship designs don't float my ducky
- Forehead-ridges, nose-knobblies, and neck spots do
NOT make someone an alien
- Neither do pointy ears
- Aliens too much like archetypes; only Klingon or Vulcan is more or less interchangeable with any other
- The Prime Directive can
bite me
- I want "Star Wars"-style fighters, dammit
- "Babylon 5" had 'em too, yanno
- I'd like to see how civilians live a bit more often
- Technobabble
- Shatner
...well, I could go on, but I don't want to insult people who like the show. Not
too badly, anyway.
I've often said that there were two ways I'd give Star Trek another try:
First, if they'd follow a civilian ship around instead of Starfleet. Think Han Solo or "Firefly" in the Star Trek universe. Maybe they bump into Starfleet from time to time, but it's an independent vessel doing its own thing.
Second, maybe we're still following a Starfleet vessel like the Enterprise, but as captain...cast Andrew Dice Clay. And when the first officer comes into the ready room, he's got his feet up on the desk with a beer in one hand, a comic book in the other, and he's watching football on the viewscreen. I got you Tennyson and Earl Grey tea
right here. Nyaa!
...JJ Abrams found a third way I hadn't considered; I may actually be a convert thanks to that movie. But
still.
That's cool, as long as you have something you get out of it! The new one was so awesome, Chris Pine is great eye candy.
Not really my type...but Uhura was kind of a babe.
Who is the Riker to my Picard 
(yea that's right Kevin, you're only #2)
