Quoted from Napabar:That's true, they sacrifice some of the "Trek" feel us long-time fans have enjoyed to appeal to a larger audience. That being said, the results have paid off.
If you look at the first 10 Star Trek movies, they averaged $75.5 million U.S. domestic. The two new ones averaged $243.5 million U.S. domestic, with a lot larger international sales than Star Trek usually grosses. And these new numbers far exceed inflation being factored in.
Paramount has a winner on their hands with this formula. And for us old-timers, they can always do a TV show in the Prime timeline again....perhaps in the early 25th century.
It is good popcorn entertainment, but it only Star Trek by virtue of having characters with the same names and it being based in space. The characters are caricatures of what came before, and action/explosions has been substituted for plot. There is not even an attempt at having any "science" in the science fiction that Trek at least attempted to do.
More popular, yes. More money for Paramount, yep. Better? That is subjective of course, but for me, nope.
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