• CitizenKong@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I mean, technically everything from TNG onwards would be NuTrek and Kelvin-stuff would be NuNuTrek, or rather Re-Trek, since it’s a reboot.

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      NuTrek started when they did a full visual reboot, including completely changing the look of the Klingons: TMP.

      Then it got worse, when they followed that up with a grimdark shoot-em-up that felt nothing like Trek. These people aren’t even fans of the show!

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        4 months ago

        completely changing the look of the Klingons

        You are talking about the TOS movies/TNG? Never understand the forehead thing either

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          Yeah, I’m facetiously comparing the 1979 arguments over bumpy headed Klingons to the 2017 arguments over cone headed Klingons. What’s “new” keeps on changing, but the arguments about it stay eerily familiar.

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                Because that’s the definition and it’s not used to mean anything else.

                The prefix “nu-” is an informal term used in British English to indicate a modern or updated version of something. For example, “nu-metal” music is a term that uses the prefix. The word “nu” originated in the 20th century and comes from the word “new”.

                https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/nu

                I’d still like to know exactly what it is you thought it meant.

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                    Whether or not they’re using it pejoratively is immaterial to the fact that it means “new”.

                    This is what it is referencing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nu_metal

                    Yes and the “Nu” in NuMetal means “New”.

                    Everything after DS9 is NuTrek because it’s the most modern group of Star Trek shows. The movies are not NuTrek because they’re just blockbusters movies. NuTrek is not inherently pejorative or negative. The “Nu” in “NuTrek” is being used the same way it was used in NuMetal (which also wasn’t pejorative. It’s just new and fundamentally different from old trek. Just like NuMetal is newer and fundamentally different from Metal.