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   From: david@block.net   
      
   On Fri, 09 Mar 2007 21:13:03 GMT, "Kweeg"    
   wrote:   
      
   >"Andrew"  wrote in message   
   >news:75CdnSi7obEqX2zYnZ2dnUVZ_oannZ2d@comcast.com...   
   >> Wasn't "Enterprise" suppose to do the same thing ("stay true to it's   
   >history   
   >> but aim for the broadest audience possible") and ended up doing NEITHER?   
   >Us   
   >> folks who remember watching ST:TOS first runs are at least in our mid   
   >> 40's...  and we're not the prime demographics who go to the movies, so I   
   >> suspect that Kurtzman/Orci are either being ignorant or more likely just   
   >> spinning not to alienate the ST:TOS fans.   
   >>   
   >> Only thing going for this project is that Beavis and Butthead aren't   
   >> involved (as far as I can tell) which would be the kiss of death as far as   
   >> most fans are concerned.   
   >   
   >Indeed. IMO Enterprise failed because it didn't feel like TOS, which it   
   >should have, although it started to during season 4. IMO that's what made   
   >TOS work, characters that acted like they had been "in the service" together   
   >for a while and the show didn't ram political correctness down out throats   
   >like TNG and Voy did, they just got on with who they were. As someone said   
   >here earlier, it wasn't a big deal that Uhura was black she was the ComO, or   
   >that Sulu was Asian,   
      
   And it wasn't a big deal that Chekov was Russian...oh.  Wait.   
      
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