Reply #16: Well, given the success of Trek IV, Paramount also wanted the movie to be "funny"...

[Deja Q]

The trouble is, sending up the characters in the process rarely works, which was done in trek V, to a much lesser extent in VI, IX, and X... VII gets it right with Data's emotion chip (it's in-character), but Trek VIII sends everybody up with silliness.

The 2009 movie does pick up on Trek V's style of making self-parodies out of the characters and re-uses some of the same ha-ha-bonk bits Trek V loved to play with. If only those scenes were funny in 1989. (Note to JJ NOT-SO-DYN-O-MITE: They're still not.

ST:2009 is cringe-worthy garbage.

But it made money, so Paramount is happy.

I may be a minority, but AbramsTrek sucks.


Oh, at least the big piece of blinky light plastic that acted as an engine room in Treks VIII-X looked more realistic than some abandoned high school boiler room, the sort most often found in movies heckled my MST:3K... note, that big piece of blinky plastic looked so fake... Trek II had the best engine room design, if you're looking for something that looks futuristic and not one big piece of plastic or anything that doubles as a swimming pool water filter/reconditioning system...