J.J. Abrams is a dropkick Part 3: The future mistakes.

Star Trek XI in the hands of J.J. Abrams and crew, well a sad day indeed, sure it has the guy who plays Sylar in Heroes and Eric Bana and John Cho, but even these fantastically talented people cannot over come the enormous drag factor of J.J. Abrams and crew. I say crew because not only is it J.J. but all the writers and producers are a close net group who have worked with him on the projects I’ve listed above. This means that the production, directing and writing team for Star Trek XI is roughly equivalent to the current Bush administration. Not only is a complete buffoon in charge but he’s decided that the best men for the jobs are his mates, all of which are buffoons of the same calibre as Mr Abrams himself.

Some of the people involved in Star Trek XI have admitted that they haven’t seen an episode of Star Trek. This is not necessarily a bad thing after all, Nicholas Myers had seen practically no Star Trek before he directed The Wrath of Khan and this one was possibly one of the best things to happened to Star Trek. He brought humor and irreverence to Star Trek that saved it after The Motionless Picture. Being involved in Star Trek is no guarantee of success though, look at Voyager and Enterprise, all the people involved in it had been involved in Star Trek since the late 80s or early 90s. That is of course a rant for another day.

Some of the people making Star Trek XI have said that they are huge trekkies, one even to the point of considering the novels canon. Once you consider those canon you might as well consider Star Trek V to be canon. And then to go even further you might as well consider fan-fiction to be canon, I can just imagine it now, “Kirk and Spock’s Love Child: The Movie”. At this point now though I’m just talking shit and rambling, of course some would say this entire article has been rambling shit. But enough about this, lets move on to more pointless reasons to hate J.J. Abrams. He along with Michael Bay represent what is wrong with the American movie industry. They make horribly predictable movies aimed at the 90% of the population who are complete morons. Who think that reading is for pussies, reality television is entertaining, and Halo is the greatest video game series of all time. Oh sure they make money, that is the aim of any business, but this is truly the worst thing about them. It is a sad sad world we live in when geniuses like Joss Wheadon and Mike Judge are for the most part toiling in obscurity, and it’s a miracle that the likes of the Cohen brothers and Wes Anderson are able to continue making movies. Movies that are a beacon of great story telling in an age of “High Concept”, where movies get written and conceptualised so that they can be pitched to a studio executive in a sentence, preferably a short one.

Part of me wants Star Trek XI to be a good movie so that the Star Trek franchise can continue on be it through more movies or a new TV series. But another part of me wants it to fail so that J.J. Abrams can be taken down a peg. Then another part of me also wants the movie to fail so that Star Trek can be put into a kind of hibernation and reawakened when both it and the world are ready again.