re: #163 Gus 802

I watched Star Trek VIII: First Contact the other night and enjoyed it. Wasn’t too crazy about the first Star Trek movie but at the time I thought it was better than Black Hole or later Dune. Nimoy was very unhappy with the first movie.

The reason that Trek ever became a film franchise and then new TV series boils down to two words: Star Wars. Paramount spent so much time and developed so many headaches trying to first create a movie and then a new series that they were prepared to pull the plug when Star Wars came out and convinced them to seek their own slice of the pie. Hence why the first movie is a convoluted mess that nobody was ever happy with.