I watched the Gary Mitchell TOS episode last night - hadn't seen it in years. God the uniforms were awful.

When it was being shown, they had the equivalent of half a movie done every week.

That was actually the 2nd pilot right? The first episode with Shatner if i remember right?

IM guessing this 9 minute preview will reveal who it is.

Yeah, The Cage was the original pilot.

Yep. In some ways it was rougher than the Jeffrey Hunter pilot, and they made wholesale changes afterward. Uniforms were awful, weapons looked like they were straight out of a 50's sci-fi movie, there was a different doctor, no Uhura, Sulu was a department head instead of the helmsman, there were clearly typewritten reports on the view screens, they had a regular pillow and blanket on Mitchell's bed in sick bay, main view screen was tiny. Kudos to whoever changed all that crap once the show got picked up.

I'm sure you're right.

Honestly, I loved what these guys did with the first one. I'm all in. I don't really care where they take it because I trust them.

I don't care if it's Khan or Mitchell or someone completely new. Looks like it's going to be a great ride no matter what.

I can't say I loved the Star Wars-ish dumbing down, but I realize it was necessary to keep the franchise alive.

Heh, its been fun to go back and rewatch some of those old episodes on Netflix in HD. You can clearly make out mistakes such as makeup lines and cheesy plastic made props. Stuff we never picked up on as kids growing up watching them on old fuzzy UHF stations.
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Understood. It's clearly been updated for the "Michael Bay" audience, but JJ managed to keep it somewhat thought provoking but still and stayed true to the characters. Mostly he made it cool and relevant again.
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I'm not sure I understand what you mean.

There is a segment of traditional trekkies who hate that J.J. removed the focus on plot development through extended conversations and opted for more of emphasis on action driven scenes.

Still, imo, it was an engaging story and had a number of moving elements throughout its entirety.

Uhh, Scotty going through the Enterprise's wash cycle and bringing his little teddy bear alien aboard the enterprise, Kirk running through the ship waving his Mickey Mouse hands around...Don't ever make me watch Spock and Uhura making out again...

And Kirk being named Captain of the Enterprise at the end of it all?...Kinda like the USN naming some 19 year old the captain of their largest nuclear aircraft carrier...

This, and more. And worst of all, the entire motive for the villain was horribly flawed, and while I know from the deleted scenes why the Romulans vanished for 25 years, and know the backstory from the preview graphic novel, the whole thing was just ****tarded.

However, I understand that they had to reboot the whole thing and not be constrained in the future by traditional ST canon. I'm pretty much an end-justifies-the-means guy anyway, so I get it. But the means had plot holes you could fly a starship through.

Well we could argue back and forth all day about how flawed or stupid some of the sequences might have been.

But I still don't understand the Star Wars comparison, nor how it was dumbed down. Whether it was flawed or not, the film was fairly complex and emotionally mature.