There was only ONE Star Trek.

[Requia ☣]

Blarg.  Did TNG have CAPTAIN PIKE, the most AWESOMEST VILLIAN EVER?

Hell, no.  It would be "insensitive" to the handicapped, horribly burned, and mobility scooter crowd.

When was Pike ever a villain?

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Blarg.  Did TNG have CAPTAIN PIKE, the most AWESOMEST VILLIAN EVER?

Hell, no.  It would be "insensitive" to the handicapped, horribly burned, and mobility scooter crowd.

When was Pike ever a villain?

That episode where he had to go back to Telos IV and he and Spock hijacked the Enterprise. The had clips from the pilot.

[Bruno]

You must be thinking of the series "finale" of Futurama.

Also,


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[Requia ☣]

I remember them taking Pike there on orders 

was nearly a decade ago last I saw that ep though.

[Don Coyote]

I remember them taking Pike there on orders 

was nearly a decade ago last I saw that ep though.

faked orders. faked orders faked by Spock.

[Bruno]

Spock was the "villain" in that episode. He basically hijacked the ship, and kidnapped Pike.

[Faust]

The original series had the spirit of adventure. The next generation was way more sci fi focused and did what it wanted to do well. Both shows were very different and very good.
I hated everything that came after that, with the odd few exceptions of DSN, and those episodes were all about Garak the tailor.

[Cain]

Enterprise was the best series ever.

No, seriously, I liked some of the later DS9 episodes, especially the le Carre and Greene themed/inspired ones, as well as the Dominion-Federation war, but apart from that the franchise has been pretty meh for me.  I probably would've liked the original series when it originally came out, had I been around, but I wasn't.

[AFK]

Heh, my introduction to Star Trek was the animated series based upon the original Star Trek series, which was broadcasted on Nickelodeon.  I recall hating that cartoon very much because it was standing between me and my favorite cartoon series at the time, Dangermouse. 

[Luna]

Enterprise was the best series ever.

I blame the theme song for that one not taking off as well as it could have.  I couldn't connect that music with Star Trek, at all.

[Cain]

Enterprise was the best series ever.

I blame the theme song for that one not taking off as well as it could have.  I couldn't connect that music with Star Trek, at all.

That was pretty awful.  But the flaws ran much deeper.  Trekkies, like fandom nerds everywhere, will not accept a prequel with open arms because it basically means rewriting the canon.  And in order to gain a new audience, the show will have to make some kind of relevant links to well known elements of other franchise shows, which leads to stupidity like retconning the Borg or introducing a "temporal Cold War".

[Luna]

The most recent movie, however, was brilliant.  A prequel, set against a reasonable "okay...  time travel happened, we're now in an alternate reality, things are different, and anything goes" setting.  Worked for me.

[Cain]

That was a stroke of genius.  It was an easy and effective way to offset the massive potential for nerdrage which pretty much any major fandom is made up of, and let the film get on with being an awesome action flick.

[Cuddlefish]

That was a stroke of genius.  It was an easy and effective way to offset the massive potential for nerdrage which pretty much any major fandom is made up of, and let the film get on with being an awesome action flick.

This.

[Luna]

Also sidestepping the major problem with any prequel, that being, "we've already SEEN what happens next," so there's no dramatic tension.

The fans would NEVER have tolerated the relationship between Spock and Uhura, for example, in a straight timeline.