Another part that I really admire about Final Frontier is how it wants to incorporate "alien" looking aliens among the main crew. That's always been a disappointment for me whenever they include a very humanoid looking character and say that is the alien member. I thought that maybe it was because of budget reasons that they couldn't get alien looking aliens to be a part of the crew..... until I watched Farscape..... God, that was awesome.
And what the heck was this anti-alien stance that everyone on Trek09 had? There were so many humanoid looking aliens that even the most detailed looking ones only got about 1 second of screen time. For a 150 million dollar budget movie, that's pathetic. The Original Series had more alien looking Aliens for cripes sake!
I mean, look at this alien from "Star Trek: Final Frontier"
See? That's a pretty cool looking alien. I would be interested in seeing what kind of a character it would be. It's different looking and doesn't have many human like features that I can relate to. That's cool, because the unfamiliar interests me.
Now, let's take a look at what JJ Abrams' idea of an Alien looks like.
Yes. 150 million dollars, and this is the "Ooo! Alien!" moment in Star Trek 2009. And they still didn't bother to make an engineering or shuttle bay set for one of science fictions most iconic and recognizable ships in existence.
You fail JJ. You fail a thousand times.