I hate Nu-Trek more than anyone, but didn't hate those three movies. Star Trek has never really been a movie franchise (1 and a 1/2 good movies pre-2009 out of ten attempts?) so if they went the big blockbuster route in 2009 to try and bring in new fans, but paired it with a traditional, optimistic, thoughtful TNG or DS9-style TV series set 20 years after Voyager, I think the franchise would be in really great shape now.
They were never going to sell $1B in tickets with Smart Trek movies, and I think the three films were about as good as you could hope for given the constraints of the modern movie-going public. They just happened to be released in the middle of a huge Smart Trek drought, that ended in the death of Star Trek w/ STD and Picard.
I hate Nu-Trek more than anyone, but didn't hate those three movies. Star Trek has never really been a movie franchise (1 and a 1/2 good movies pre-2009 out of ten attempts?) so if they went the big blockbuster route in 2009 to try and bring in new fans, but paired it with a traditional, optimistic, thoughtful TNG or DS9-style TV series set 20 years after Voyager, I think the franchise would be in really great shape now.
They were never going to sell $1B in tickets with Smart Trek movies, and I think the three films were about as good as you could hope for given the constraints of the modern movie-going public. They just happened to be released in the middle of a huge Smart Trek drought, that ended in the death of Star Trek w/ STD and Picard.