Thanks. Having skimmed it a bit, and reading your comments, I know enough to be tentatively, mildly excited.
Iron Prime wrote:Neat idea but I don't have faith in the current PtB at Paramount to pull it off.
I'm on the fence about this. Contemporary Trek is inherently flawed... but so is ancient, vintage, and "OMG-I-Loved-That"-Trek.
Think I said this before, Trek has never been, nor ever will be, a masterpiece of consistent storytelling or anything like that. But it
is Trek. And the more (often) I see (parts) of it today (LDS, PIC, DIS), the more I see flaws --
and thoroughly enjoy it.
The MCU started out awesome for me, but while the origins work still as dramatic stand-alone films, the ensemble action blockbusters kept dropping the ball (for me personally) after the first one.
But I think a Trek variant on this might be welcome for me...?
Someone (perhaps @monty42?) said sometime ago, "Just slapping a Trek logo to something doesn't make it Trek".
A very valid stance. One I can respect.
And yet... I found myself, the past week, realising... yes, slapping a Trek logo to something and calling it "canon"
will help
me absorb it, get used to it, and love it. Trek is in my system, and for better or worse, new "officially named Trek" will find its way with me.
I was toying with the idea of starting a topic about this, (ironically) named,
"I Can No Longer Respect Myself As A Trek Fan" (
).
Now, I don't have to.
Whether it's good or not(*), if it has a Trek logo, I'll learn to love it. Indiscriminate, it seems. That's
not pretty. It's not who I
want to be. But it
is.
(*: Here, I look back at the hateful rants I wrote about PIC after
, which I
still despise. But back then, I seriously believed I'd never think back fondly on
anything in that series, because of
. But because it's part of the greater whole, I am starting to
forgive it.
Is that being a fan? Or a drooling fan-person? Or a mindless drone that'll guzzle up anything it's given? I don't care. It's me, and I'm having
fun.)
Sorry about that side-step. Back to the OP... The Theory.