J. J. Abrams is a hack and I hate that he keeps getting work

People are taking this interview out of context.

He said, as a kid, he never liked Star Trek. But as an adult, after rewatching TOS to prepare for the 2009 film, he grew to appreciate Star Trek.

Yeah, but he actually succeeded though.

Star Trek 2009 revived a franchise that had been dead since Nemesis, reviewed well, is still the highest grossing Trek film ever made, and regularly appears near the top of lists of the best films in the franchise.

Which quite possibly kicked the idiot bandwagon in Hollywood/StreamingLand of hiring people who do not like the IP into overgear. "It made money one time, so we should do it forever" - High Level Business Executive Thinking. So many promising projects ruined.

I will give JJ Abrahams one genuine heartfelt compliment about his Star Trek movies: they delivered on the sense of scale.

Particularly the opening scene in the first film, the cinematography (sans overused lens flares) and sound design was excellent and showed both the awesome spectacle of the sheer size of the ships and the awful danger of space combat.

That's something there wasn't the budget or technological capability to show until Abrahams-Trek and then Discovery and Strange New Worlds.

For what it's worth, I found Star Trek dreadfully boring as a child. The trailers for '09 did nothing for me either because it seemed to be all references to a show I didn't watch. Wasn't until everyone at school was talking about how fun it was that I finally saw it. I had a blast. It made me want to understand more about the lore. 'I'd heard about Kirk and Spock my whole life, but who the hell is Bones?' Etc. Baby-stepped up to Wrath of Khan. 'Oh wait, this is a sequel to an old episode? Well I gotta see that episode.' Watched that and found the show way more gripping at an older age, so I went back and did TOS from the beginning. Then on to TNG and so on...

Slop still serves a purpose.

None of those movies actually happened so it's ok

At the time, liked it out of pure desperation for good sci-fi to exist again. As a whole, just a mediocre money-grab with the classic attempt to "appease all audiences" while abandoning the franchise with a parallel universe loophole.

He was right. My GF never liked Star Trek but went "holy fuck!" to the opening of the 2009 movie.

"We don't like or know the IP and we wrote a script until everyone liked it instead of saying anything because I don't like philosophy."

We, the communities, need to start buying IPs of the shit we like before it becomes a target for the mainstream to steal and destroy.

FWIW, Star Trek isn't the only sci-fi franchise he manages to drive against the wall.

Jonathan Frakes never watched Star Trek as a kid either. He preferred Bonanza.

The problem with the Kelvin movies is they are all pale imitations of Wrath of Khan. Dude has a problem with Starfleat. Dude enacts revenge. Wrath was a shiny red button you press once. They've pressed it four times now and each iteration keeps on getting shittier. As much as I love Star Trek, it's time to take it off life support. At this point it's more Weekend at Bernie's than Let That Be Your Last Battlefield.

It's difficult to have that conversation without making assumptions about... Things.

But for what it's worth, ST is still somewhat popcorn in its subject matter.

The only thing good about JJ touching Star Trek was the trailer for it, which is 10/10. The movies were all a big let down in comparison. But the trailer is amazing, in no small part due to the music from Two Steps From Hell.

i found it too philosophical for me

yea thats why ds9 is the best one