so... what pissed me off the most about the JJAbrams Star Trek movies:
seeing the trailer for the 2nd movie with Benedict Cumberbatch and Alice Eve, realizing that JJ had found the perfect re-casting for Gary Mitchell + Elizabeth Dehner and that this was obviously going to be a re-imagining of "Where No Man Has Gone Before."
Note that, generally, a pilot is made before the showrunners have fully figured out the worldbuilding/etc. There'll always be mistakes + stuff that no longer makes sense in the series context that eventually develops.
This was especially true of WNMHGB.
For a reboot/reimagining, that's what you need to re-do. Good episode, but so much to fix: Middle initial on the tombstone is the least of it.
And of course, dropping a rock on Mitchell would never have been enough to kill him.
That was clearly all staged for Kirk's benefit, to get him to go away and never come back so that they could enjoy their super-powered utopia in peace or fuck off to infinity and start the Q or whatever it was they were supposed to have done.
Naturally, there turns out to be Something They're Missing and they have to come back to get it … with suitably horrific consequences for humanity if they should succeed.
And ALL of the property destruction you see in that trailer is completely explainable in terms of Mitchell's powers (Dehner's too; even in the original episode, once she gets her shit together, she goes from 0 to 60-Full-Ass-Beam-of-Death in no time, even if the 1966 special-effects/budget couldn't do it justice -- really needed to be detonating half of the landscape behind him whenever she missed).
Even if the movie were to end on a single half-destroyed ship fleeing the multi-solar-system battlefield with a message,
Instead we got this completely lame rehash of Wrath of Khan, the original version of which, I might remind, was basically the culmination of TOS -- one of the best things they ever did with that cast + Ricardo Montelban in top form.
(I will still put Doomsday Machine in 1st, but that's me...).
I mean, maybe JJ could have found a way to make it better, but the odds were so stacked against that happening, it was ridiculous.
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