Star Trek 2009 Passes Franchise Milestone

[Mike DiCenso]

This last weekend's actual box office take is in and it is offical that ST 2009 with a take of $5,511,434 has reached $240,255,340 and at least tied, if not passed up ST:TMP in adjusted for inflation dollars. It's all new territory for Trek now.
-Mike

[Jedi Master Spock]

As more time passes, I'm coming to believe more and more that the franchise reboot simply has a much broader popular appeal, period. It'll be interesting to see how Star Trek evolves in the public eye in the next few years.

[Praeothmin]

Well, most non-geeks are more interested in an exciting action Sci-Fi ride then technobabble, so the tendency Trek had to explain everything done through "Pseudo-Science" was unappealing (to me even, and I'm a semi-geek).

[GStone]

I embraced my geek side long ago and the hayday of technobabble was during voyager. They got lazy with the technobabble. It's like with normal speaking and you write overly complicated sentences that people wouldn't say. The same is true with being technical. It's like the writers were isolated (or whoever it was that came up with the technical lines) and each one writes a separate sentence without communicating with the other writers.

[Mike DiCenso]

As more time passes, I'm coming to believe more and more that the franchise reboot simply has a much broader popular appeal, period. It'll be interesting to see how Star Trek evolves in the public eye in the next few years.

A lot of this movie's success has been that they not only started over with a clean sheet, but went back to basics as well. The lack of geeky techno-babble is certainly helpful, not to mention all the action and cool special effects. But the real winner here is the wonderful characterizations. That is what is drawing people in and will keep the franchise strong by drawing in even more.

It's too bad that they botched up the E-Alt's design....Oh well, maybe a refit for the ship between movies will help correct that a little bit. :-)
-Mike

[Praeothmin]

It's too bad that they botched up the E-Alt's design

If by "Botched" you mean "Made it cool and modern looking while keeping the feel of the original Star Trek!", then I agree with you... :)

[Mike DiCenso]

Nah, the E-Alt is not cool, it's a misproportioned monster. They could have updated it and made it bigger than the Prime-E, but still kept the Prime-E's sleek and balanced lines. For how to do it right, see the Gabriel Koerner's updated TOS Enterprise as seen here.
-Mike

[Roondar]

It's too bad that they botched up the E-Alt's design

If by "Botched" you mean "Made it cool and modern looking while keeping the feel of the original Star Trek!", then I agree with you... :)

Except for the 'warp core' and engineering in general. Which made the E-alt look like it was steam powered. And not a good way either. That part of the ship did not look at all Startrek-like to me, it looked like what it was - a 20th century chemical plant.

[Praeothmin]

They could have updated it and made it bigger than the Prime-E, but still kept the Prime-E's sleek and balanced lines. For how to do it right, see the Gabriel Koerner's updated TOS Enterprise as seen here.

While I agree the version you linked is nice, I still like the E-Alt just fine, thank you very much... :)

Which made the E-alt look like it was steam powered. And not a good way either. That part of the ship did not look at all Startrek-like to me, it looked like what it was - a 20th century chemical plant.

How do you know what the interior of a straship should look like? :)
Anyway, it does look like Star Trek, because it was in a Star Trek movie... ;)