On Feb 8, 2005, at 11:11 AM, Damon Agretto wrote:
You haven't seen the last few Trek movies, have you? "Mindless action film" is a pretty good description for any one of them.
That's the way its been for a while. Star Trek stopped being about SF and started being a character driven franchise a long time ago.
Actually if it *had* been legitimately character driven it might have been tolerable. Character-driven here meaning "exploring the lives, ideals and mores of the characters, how they relate to the universe and what they learn from it."
That's why Kirk had to have a "noble" death...can't get by with a cheap death in his bed of old age (like most ranking officers), but by saving the universe.
Well, that would have been OK too, but the construction around Kirk's death was stupid. Really really stupid.
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