Why are Star Trek fans so bitter about the reboot?

[Blu Lemmy]

Originally Posted by sandman slim

I've been a fan since the '70s, and I loved the reboot. The only problem I have with new Trek is that Into Darkness seems kinda pointless. I mean, it was a good movie and I liked it, but what's the point of rebooting the series and then spending $200 million to remake something we've seen already? Going forward, I want to see them do new things, new worlds, new villians. I don't need to see Q again, and the Borg again, and Best of Both Worlds again. Merely remaking stories we've already seen just shows a complete lack of imagination.

Also, I don't really see the point of Trek existing as only one two-hour movie every four years. It's long past time Paramount started a Trek network. They have thousands of hours of programming already available, and being the only place to watch episodes of a new Trek series would be all the incentive most of us would need to subscribe. Four new series airing in thirteen week blocks would keep new material on the air year-round, and even at a cost of $3 million per episode, it would cost less than one new movie. A failed movie is a disaster for a studio; a failed episode is forgotten when the new one airs a week later.

Although a battle between the Borg and Starfleet using todays SFX would be epic.....just saying