Archer's Line 🎙️ by Rob Archer

Archer's Line 🎙️ by Rob Archer

Angry Trek fans denounce new Trek before they've seen it (2017 and 1987 editions)

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Rob Archer
Sep 20, 2017
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Before the launch of Star Trek: Discovery, pause and reflect that the 1987 launch of Star Trek: The Next Generation was met with a subset of angry fans condemning it before they'd seen it (see below).

Now, 30 years later, TNG is held by some Trekkies to be as sacred as TOS.

Will Discovery be good? Who knows. But as a confirmed Trekkie myself, and as someo…

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