i see where this thread is going ....
Except I didn't like how he backslid the Federation/Klingon relationship. I'm about to descend back into my tiresome rant about what Trek is about and how later writers (and entire series, like DS9) missed the point. Or ignored the point for the sake of drama.
Preach on brother STK!
I think ignored the point for the sake of drama (and thus viewers) is probably the reasoning behind getting more action in.
I always wanted a new Star Trek that took place further in the future than TNG and perhaps ultimately ended with peace and friendship with the Romulan Star Empire.
The new movie is fine because it's more or less unrelated. The movies were always the weak sister of the Trek franchise. You can't tell the kinds of stories Trek was created for with only 120 minutes every 3-5 years. Too much pressure to make everything the end-all-be-all and action-packed. You could never do Darmok or Inner Light or whatever in a movie. The original Star Trek: The Motion Picture was an attempt to do a tv episode-style story in movie form, and they had to pad it all to hell to fill a movie's run time, and making it a lot of people's least favorite in the process. IMO, Star Trek doesn't work well as movies, so if they're going to make movies, they might as well just go their own way like the new one.
