Originally posted by moonbus
I know what you mean about Star Trek (post Kirk-Spock) being over-produced; they had tonnes of money to spend on effects and often went OTT on costumes and prosthetic devices. Dr. Who was more cerebral and more comic-booky, both at once.
The different Doctors issue was resolved very early on and made endless sequels possible. This has been less successful ...[text shortened]... avel paradoxes: when Abrams destroyed Vulcan, it un-wrote half the original Kirk-Spock episodes.
Totally agree. But creating new Star Trek properties is a hit-and-miss affair. DS9 was popular, Voyager less so, and Enterprise (pre-pre-Original Series) did the worst in terms of popularity.
I hated what Abrams did with Vulcan and never really got over it. "Alternate Timelines" just suck, and show a remarkable lack of vision. When I saw his name on SW:VII, I thought, "Here we go again", and sure enough, Abrams just blew out all of the intervening canon stories that were written after SW:VI; the loss of the Thrawn trilogy especially, and The Courtship of Princess Leia both hurt, as they set up a timeline where Solo and Leia had kids (all Force-capable), and so now, instead of the Lucas-endorsed canon stories**, now called "Star Wars Legends", Abrams shoved this bogus "Force Awakens" storyline on us, even though he won't be directing the next two, he forced HIS storyline to become accepted. Thanks, J.J., for ruining Star Wars the same way you selfishly ruined Star Trek. I hope to God he never gets his hands on Doctor Who.
** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_canon#Expanded_Universe
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_canon#The_Holocron
P.S.: I now see that Timothy Zahn is writing a new novel about Thrawn to be included in the new canon. This takes away a bit of the sting of losing this character to the canon re-branding of 2014. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_Thrawn