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   From: kweeg@nospam.shaw.ca   
      
   "David Johnston"  wrote in message   
   news:vh26v2di8db3qeb69g8rapc330l7pgbgjv@4ax.com...   
   > 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.   
      
   It wasn't. Saying everything was Russian or invented in Russia was Paval's   
   way of "chucking shite."   
   See earlier statement, "characters that acted like they had been "in the   
   service" together for a while"   
      
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