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   From: jax@knickersjaxtrawstudios.com   
      
   Kweeg wrote:   
   > "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"   
      
   Am I right in remembering that he rather worryingly referred to "Leningrad"?   
      
   :)   
      
      
      
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