Paramount likes the audience who spends 250 million dollars to go see the 2009 Trek, not the ones who went to the TNG films of which not even one crossed 100 million, the last of which made a mere 40 million. You defend the Trek of Nemesis but not the 2009 Trek. Have fun with that.
Those movies were critical and commercial bombs. Critics loved the 2009 Trek movie and it was a box office hit. Your comparison doesn't work at all.
You need to remember one thing, Star Trek was DEAD before Abrams came along. Dead dead dead. Enterprise failed and was cancelled (and DS9 and Voyager lost most of the TNG audience, Voyager gained Seven of Nine as a pure ratings grab since it was struggling in the ratings). Star Trek Nemesis was a complete bomb and Insurrection did pretty weak before that.
Star Trek before Abrams was as dead as a franchise could be, and was slowly dying in the years leading up to it's death. Abrams as far as Paramount and Hollywood at large is concerned revived a dead franchise and made it bigger than it ever was.
The 90's Godzilla bombed, the Halle Berry Catwoman bombed. Both were trashed by critics.Star Trek 2009 did not bomb, it was a hit. Both commercially and critically.
