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After yesterday's Wolverine-induced trauma, I have to say the new Trek film is made entirely of win, in a way that makes even its (no few) points of utter fail become win-ful by proxy. It's like an AU written by a talented, loving fan (and JJ Abrams is at least the first, though by his own admition not the second). Do I like how it overthrows 40
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But the overthrowing of the canon is something that does bother me. Not because of the so called 'lack of respect' some people may harp on, but because of what it means a remake will look like.
I do not want to see a Trek that shows a dark reality in which the Federation is blown to bits because the [spoiler] race wasn't around to help out this time against the Federation's enemies (and some of its more power-hungry friends). That race was/is? the glue that held the Federation together, and was the powerhouse behind the Humans' bid for control over it. Even if Mr. [spoiler] from waaay in the [spoiler] knows a lot of fun things that could help, he's just one guy and he has a lot of stuff to do.
The Trek I remember was filled with hope. Humanity is shown as strong and as a race to be respected in its little stretch of the galaxy. If they revert Trek and turn it into some post-apocalyptic version of itself with Humanity as we know it today (greedy, survival-oriented and crude), then it will no longer be Trek. It'll be cyberpunk.
I just hope that the concept of "history always tries to correct its course once disrupted" will hold true here as well, and that whatever future Trek we'll see won't have "pandering for the young and chaotic masses" written all over it.
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