We love Wil Wheaton here at Slice of SciFi. He was one of the first major actors to promo our show, has been a past guest and has remained a loyal friend and strong supporter ever since. We are also glad that he has finally chimed in and made his first real public comments about the new J.J. Abrams re-invention of the classic Trek characters. This week on his outstanding blog Wil held nothing back and in his usual straight-forward and unabashed way let the verbal slings and arrows fly. Here is just a sampling of his thoughts on the subject of the new Star Trek movie.
“‘Re-inventing?’ Uh-oh! I’m not sure how i feel about this.”
“Speaking as a lifelong geek, my knee-jerk reaction when I hear someone talking about “reinventing” something like Trek is that it will be a tower of suck, built out of an endless supply of Jar-Jars and midichlorians.”
“However! Ron Moore reinvented BSG, and it’s the greatest thing ever, so reinventing things isn’t automatically horrible. In fact, if the article had been titled “JJ Abrams promises thrilling effects for Star Trek movie” I’d be celebrating right now. Language is important, as they say.”
“I guess it comes down to who is doing the reinventing, and if their vision builds upon the existing foundation in an interesting way, instead of pulling a massive, insulting retcon on us all. In his favor, JJ Abrams is really, really good at starting things (not so much with the keeping them awesome after one season, sadly,) but absolutely awesome at starting things. Since this is the beginning of Star Trek, I’m hopeful. Apprehensive, but hopeful.”
“I’m going to commit heresy right now and say what few people are willing to say out loud: most of the Star Trek movies are absolute garbage. There have been ten Trek movies, and I’d say that two of them are accessible to mainstream audiences, another two are great, and the remaining six are nearly unwatchable. If JJ Abrams wants to make his new Trek movie unlike the 80% of Trek movies that aren’t that good, that’s just fine with me. Not that my opinion means anything, you understand, but rambling on and on about things like this is the price of being a geek, and I regret nothing. NOTHING!”
Read Wil’s full comments HERE.
I totally agree with Wil, only 2 of the Trek movies were decent. Hopefully Abrams can pull this one off.
The Final Frontier is the BREAST_MOOVEE_EVAR!!!1!!eleventy-one!
I agree about the ST movies also. I actually convinced myself I didn’t like the original ST crew but then I watched some of the original tv shows and they weren’t so bad. It was the movies that made me hate them; especially Kirk. Funny he didn’t mention which two movies where good. For me I have to go with First Contact as best and then the very first “Motion Picture” or are they calling that “A New Hope” now :p
Actually I think 3 films were excellent: Wrath of Khan, The Undiscovered Country and First Contact….the others? meh
For the most part: Even = good, odd = bad
Totally agree with you Sam.
Actually, I really liked IV also.
his cut scene from nemesis is more horrible than the movie itself seriously this dude cannot act.
i was so happy when the whiny wesley left tng.
by the way treks 1-6 are classic films. wesley crusher is garbage or wil wheaton or whatever the guys dumb name is.
“However! Ron Moore reinvented BSG”
not a good comparison wesley “dumbass” crusher, he ruined enterprise with these are the voyages.
plus if he has the balls to badmouth some of the best genre related sci fi films of all time he best be ready to be knocked on his ass by a trekkie.
i love treks 1-6 and the original star wars trilogy if anybody told me they were garbage to my face id kick their frickin ass.
besides he screwed the pooch and jumped the shark the same way tasha yar actress did denise crosby by jumping ship before the show became the top primetime syndicated show and a set of expensively made and popular movies, star trek tng.
I disagree, Denise Crosby didn’t jump ship but was pushed – check it. Also, I wouldn’t kill Will because of Wesley – I think the writers just created a character that was, unfortunately, really annoying. Then again, I found Janeway about 100 times more so; kept hoping Janeway would strut out the airlock and give Chakotay the command.
I’d agree more with Mark in St. Louis, I liked most ST even-numbered movies.
Hey, mods, how can you let this skyjedi2005 clown post five messages in a row; Each one with personal attacks, moronic self-agrandizing rants and bad language?
I guess I’m a sucker for the cast of TNG. I actually enjoyed those last three movies more than everything except for STII. I know, box office didn’t swing my way…
Your thoughts do matter.
To many of us you became the ignored yet faithful son of a franchise that neglected its children.
In my opinion, the day will be coming when you will become the steward of Star Trek’s future, so start training to be an executive producer Wil.