Oh and also him being thrown around as a possibility for James Bond. These guys can't catch a break.

Just as they were starting to recover from the trauma of him playing Heimdall in the Thor movies. Tragic.

They're best understood as "what if The Wiggles sang a bunch of songs about trying to fuck teenagers."

I'm sure they hit like crack if you were a comic book-brained 12 year old in 1974 but at some point you should have asked yourself if they were ever actually good

Looking forward to another site I only look at maybe three times a year telling me I've reached my article limit

Thinking about Payne Stewart's Learjet losing cabin pressure and just cruising around on autopilot for hours with everyone on it dead until it eventually ran out of fuel and crashed. Just an idea I'm rotating in my mind palace.

Yeah it didn't even function well as a sendoff for the TOS crew. The script was so insulting to Sulu (would have required him to take a demotion), Spock and Bones (written so generically that their lines were given to Chekhov and Scottie instead) that they couldn't even wrangle them back for it.

Yeah, from what I recall it was a combination of internecine fan squabbling and also trying to reclaim some pride after decades of jokes about convention nerds led to Trekkie feeling like an insult. A "we demand to be taken seriously" moment before nerd culture became mainstream.