What Trekie things did we learn from this 'rendition'..?

[ShadowDog]

That might be some of the best fan wank I've ever seen.  Good job.

[Thrifty]

I learned that Star Trek fans are the most irritating people on the planet. 

[ShadowDog]

It's still Buffy fans for me, but Star Trek fans are a very close second.

[ScottotD]

People with different tastes are the worst 

[Courtney]

Nerds, man.  What are you gonna do?

[Lemming Howard]

Well then here's some more.  I don't know if it been remarked elsewhere but I learned that the Romulans were no longer a mysterious race of beings unlike in The Original Series (TOS).  In the movie their relation to Vulcans were so well known that Humans couldn't tell the difference between the Vulcan and Romulan languages.  No wonder the trekkies are up in arms!

Black hole.  Alternate reality.

That explains everything.

Actually it might.  I don't know if they tried to justify this, but just as an exercise, let me see if I can muddle my way through.

Old timeline:  Romulans and the early Federation have numerous armed encounters but Romulans never reveal themselves until one fateful encounter against Kirk as captain of the Enterprise, that encounter being the first indication to the Federation of a shared ancestry between Romulans and Vulcans.

New timeline:  Nero goes back in time and attacks the USS Kelvin.  An alien appears on screen that resembles a Vulcan, and though the ship is destroyed there are survivors to report back what they witnessed in the encounter.

The Vulcans are consulted to try and explain, but they have no answer.

Through either subspace transmissions about the attack or spies within the Federation, the Romulans learn of a potential renegade Romulan ship attacking the Federation without support of the Empire.

Afraid that if the Federation learned of the Romulan's history on their own they might draw conclusions to lead to a war (that would be disadvantageous to them at that point) Romulans contact the Federation directly in order to declare that the mysterious ship is not acting under their command.

Excellant!

I'm seeing this movie in a whole new light.  Damn Rifftrax for making fun of it at all!  Can I change my vote over in the rank-a-riff thread?

[Thrifty]

People with different tastes are the worst 

It's not the different tastes; it's the proselytizing fanaticism.

Yes.  Exactly.

[MSTJedi]

People with different tastes are the worst 

It's not the different tastes; it's the proselytizing fanaticism.

Yes.  Exactly.

See, I'd consider myself a Star Wars nerd, a fan of Star Trek, and a fan of Whedon, but I can recognize crap when I see it and don't blindly love everything done by these purveyors of entertainment. And it does annoy me when people take things too far and won't see the truth before their eyes. This includes other parts of life, as well, but that's for another thread. Blind fanaticism/zealotry really is annoying, whatever form it takes.

[Dr. Whopoopeepee]

I learned that Uhura "demonstrated exceptional oral sensitivity" on Spock. 

I also learned that product placements are no longer a thing of the past, but unattractive people apparently are.

[ShadowDog]

Yeah, I'm also a Buffy fan but the hard core fanatics are both scary and annoying.

I also learned that product placements are no longer a thing of the past, but unattractive people apparently are.

LMFAO

[Thrifty]

Being a fan is all well and good, but with science fiction, especially Star Trek and Star Wars, you have the most disloyal fans.  They swear huge fanatical love of the product, but simultaneously a hatred of about 70% of it.  I'm not saying that fandom has to be an all or nothing situation, but I hear fans of Star Wars or Star Trek talk more about what's wrong with some aspect of the series than what's right.

[JoshWay]

I learned that the term "sawbones" will not survive into our future, greatly complicating the distribution of nicknames.

[Invisible NanoGhost]

I learned that the term "sawbones" will not survive into our future, greatly complicating the distribution of nicknames.

[Plastic Self-Cleaning Duck]

I learned that rather than Starfleet being the destination of the creme de la creme of post WWIII humans and off-worlders as Roddenberry imagined it...it was actually just the last stop for overgrown juvenile delinquents, people with identity issues and penniless guys with nowhere else to go......

[Bob]

I learned that the term "sawbones" will not survive into our future, greatly complicating the distribution of nicknames.

Yes, the complete misunderstanding of the origin of that nickname really irritated me.

I thought the name came from his favorite show "Bones" on FOX.   Huh, shows what I know.