Not seeing it -
QuoteA new report claims that part of the reason behind the creative changes on Star Trek 3 is because Paramount Pictures is looking to emulate the character- and creature-driven, high-concept sci-fi adventure feel of James Gunn's Guardians of the Galaxy film.
They want a character and create driven story? Sounds perfectly fine to me. Nothing that isn't Star Trek in there. They've always had non-humanoid aliens in the show. The Tholians and Species 8472 spring to mind. And in terms of being character driven, nothing inherently non-Trek about that either.
Still not seeing the issue that any of that would non-Trek.
And - I know, it's Wikipedia - the Wiki page defining high concept points at Trek:
QuoteHowever, it is important to differentiate a high-concept narrative from an analogous narrative. In the case of the latter, a high-concept story may be employed to allow commentary on an implicit subtext. A prime example of this might be George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, which asks, "What if we lived in a future of totalitarian government?" while simultaneously generating social comment and critique aimed at Orwell's own (real world) contemporary society. Similarly, the Gene Roddenberry sci-fi series Star Trek went beyond the high-concept storytelling of a futurist starship crew, by addressing 20th century social issues in a hypothetical and defamiliarising context.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-concept
