>The best Star Trek movies tend to be the ones that aren't
>trying to be so high minded. They're the ones with great
>action sequences, funny quips, and chemistry between the
>actors. Khan, Search for Spock, Undiscovered Country, First
>Contact.

"The Undiscovered Country" is my second-favorite Trek movie after "First Contact." And "The Search for Spock" stinks, seriously. Like it should never ever be mentioned as a good example of a Trek movie. Ever. There's a reason people invented that odd/even thing about Trek movies. And that reason is that 1, 3, and 5 reek.

Back to the lecture at hand, though, it's REALLY hard to shoehorn TUC into an argument about successful, fun Trek movies not being high-minded. It's a pretty heavy-handed Cold War allegory, and the trailer for it is actually pretty fucking awful and slow:

https://youtu.be/qCcf9FBsNVo

I think it's possible to do both. I think it's possible that STB does both and this was just a really bad trailer. Good movies can have bad first trailers. I wasn't keen on "Guardians of the Galaxy" until its THIRD trailer, and that shit is fucking fantastic.

So I'm horribly disappointed in this trailer, but I'm not writing the movie off. Yet.