I'm reading along on IMDB and what should assault my eyes but an article stating that, not only has Enterprise been canceled because, oh who knows, but Star Trek 11 has been delayed. STAR TREK 11?!!! Now, we all saw Star Trek 10, which was markedly worse than the previous TNG movies and on par with, say, Star Trek 5, which was one of the worst things I've ever seen, minus the hilarious Row-Row-Row-Your-Boat campfire scene.

Kirk: Come on. Spock... Why didn't you jump in?
Spock: I was trying to comprehend the meaning of the words.
McCoy: It's a song, you green-blooded... Vulcan. You sing it. The words aren't important. What's important is that you have a good time singing it.
Spock: Oh, I am sorry Doctor. Were we having a good time?
McCoy: God I liked him better before he died.

Really, after Roddenberry died, it was clear that nobody liked Trekkies, but everybody liked the money it brought them. Berman, Braga, and their crew of "writers" churned out movie after movie that, while sometimes added great things to the catalog (Star Trek 7), never really fulfilled its promise. Maybe they wanted to keep us coming back for more. Or maybe they were tired of us. I'll never forget...

The Ways Star Trek Handed Fans Their Hats

1. Completely changed Guinan's character from witty and wise to zen and freaky, and let's not even talk about her hair. (ST7)
2. Ditched the Troi/Worf storyline without so much as a how-do-you-do. (ST7)
3. Never bothered with Wesley again.
4. Destroyed Worf's well-developed personality. (DS9, movies)
5. Gave Geordi eyes without explanation. (ST7)
6. Tossed aside Picard's interest in archeology, killed Renee, and switched the nephew's actor. (ST7)
7. Spent 4 movies (FOUR) developing Data's personality when we liked him the way he was (robotic and a minor character).
8. Evolved the Borg, their method of assimilation, and their organization (Queen, hive, etc.) without explanation. (ST8)
9. Ditched Deanna's trademark hair. (ST8)
10. Never developed the Picard/Crusher romance, even knowing that ST10 was the last TNG movie, but didn't mind giving him a 400-year-old girlfriend on a distant planet. (ST9)
11. Married Troi and Riker offscreen in a non-traditional ceremony with a silly reception in a terrible Holodeck set, followed by a honeymoon in Riker's quarters where he immediately starts... working.(ST10)
12. Gave Picard a clone that doesn't actually look like him except for the giant prosthetic nose. (ST10)
13. Put Picard in a dune buggy, laughing like a ninny, in a scene straight out of Star Wars. (ST10)

There's bound to be more, but I'm sitting at my desk and I'm trying not to think about it.

So how do we save Trek? Can we? Here are a few suggestions:

1. No more Rick Berman, Brannon Braga, the writers, or anyone else that worked on the last 3 movies.
2. Create a Real Trekkie Test involving deeply involved questions based on TOS and TNG, as well as requiring them to have attended more than 3 conventions. In costume.
3. Start writing a DS9/Voyager movie with a storyline that acknowledges previous character storylines, develops them in a logical fashion, and blows a lot of things up.
4. Put out a DVD of ST minis that show things they left out (Geordi's eyes, the wedding, Deanna/Worf breakup, etc.).
5. Realize that there are enough Star Trek fans to sustain a movie and they can stop writing for "everyone else that never watched the show."
6. Include more Kirk-style fighting.
7. Vaporize more Red Shirts on Away Missions to mysterious planets.
8. Focus the scenes on characters we already know, not on highly paid actors playing characters we've never heard of or, even worse, little-paid, brand-new actors playing underdeveloped, badly written parts(see Star Trek 10).
9. Save the earth/Federation/humanity/the future of all mankind, not newly invented planets.
10. Lighten up. 8 and 10 were far too dark.