The Disenfranchised Trek Fans
A customer of mine recently asked about the Star Trek fan film movie posters we have on the wall at Fast Copy. No, we're not selling fan films. Wouldn't think of it. These are on the wall not to advertise movies, but to illustrate the sizes of the posters we can make (11"x17", 18"x24", 24"x36" and 36"x48"). She wanted to know what these fan films were like, and I explained, gave her a couple of websites to check out, and likened them to Star Trek fanzines. She nodded, interested, but dismissively said, "Well, they're not real Star Trek. They're more like the last (J.J. Abrams) Star Trek movie."
To her, and to so many fans of my generation, Star Trek is only the original series, maybe the animated series, and certainly the first six movies. And that's all. No TNG, DS9, VOY, ENT or nuTrek. Paramount must suspect that that's true. Why do you think they rebooted Star Trek in the first place?
So is there a place for Modern Trek fans? Is there any future for a Star Trek: The Next Generation movie? The fan films seem to concentrate on that general time-frame (or later), but do the majority of Star Trek fans? For some, such as my wife, Jean-Luc Picard is the captain of their favorite Enterprise. Have they been marginalized, dismissed, disrespected? And what about the fans of Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise? Is there no hope for a Modern Trek movie?
I was once told by a rather famous sf writer/Modern Trek fan that the Modern Trek fans are far numerous than the Classic Trek fans. If so, where's their Modern Trek movie? Are they expected to simply embrace nuTrek as the only Trek they're going to get?
If so, truly, Modern Trek fans are now the disenfranchised...
Randy
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