Star Trek

[Alex]

Originally Posted by mousepod

But the "alternate timeline" stuff is hackneyed and easy. Not clever.

The admission of such with the line about going back in time and changing things being cheating was a bit too meta for me.

I definitely understand what you're saying and I'm surprised I don't agree more than I do. I told Lani walking home afterward that it was bittersweet since the movie essentially instructs us to ignore the hundreds of hours of TV and movies that have come so far (not to mention the first 100 or so of the novels I read as a kid). Sure it still happened in one sense but is no longer relevant to any future engagement with the Star Trek world.

But I'm bothered by that much less than I though I would be (I've always preferred Trek to Star Wars but the product has been so awful for long enough that I think I'm grateful for something that can be enjoyed on at least some levels).