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I'm still asking questions. Can this team do anything like "City on the Edge of Forever"? "Amok Time"? Heck, "A Taste of Armageddon" or "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield"? Maybe that's not what modern, movie-going audiences are looking for - but it is what I expect from Star Trek.

Let's be fair now, did the OS movies do anything close to those episodes either?

As much as I love The Wrath of Khan and The Undiscovered Country, the rest of the OS Star Trek movies were pretty meh and not even close to being on par with the episodes you mention either. There are way more chances for a show to have extreme highs when you have a multitude of episodes to have hits and misses.

I personally think the first OS Star Trek movie was straight up garbage, and if you had asked me if they would follow it up with Wrath of Khan at the time I would have been pretty surprised. So I'd say it's pretty hard to say what the series may bring.

I will say I have high hopes for this second reboot film, as Cumberbatch is a superb actor who should make a fantastic villain as long as the script is decent.

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Posted by Ace Midnight

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Posted on 2/16/13 at 3:22 pm to auyushu

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Let's be fair now, did the OS movies do anything close to those episodes either?

You answered that with your next statement.

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I love The Wrath of Khan and The Undiscovered Country

Was The Final Frontier bad? Sure. TWOK, TSFS and TVH work as a trilogy, and TVH, while uneven and hokey with the "Save the Whales (literally)" theme, all of the character strengths remain. The characters were all intact, even in TFF.

I tried to see the intact characters in 2009, but all I found were 1-note jokes, unrecognizable "origin of" stories and big-budget special effects. It is a very pretty film, but beyond that - not Star Trek.

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