XPost: rec.arts.startrek.current   
   From: gossg@gossg.org   
      
   Joe Pfeiffer  wrote:   
      
   >>> Or simplier: who gives a shit about these stupid details ?   
   >>   
   >> The movie's producers obviously didn't.   
   >   
   >No, Berman and Braga didn't care.  Abrams (and Orci and Kurtzman) cared,   
   >understood, and deliberately took off in a new direction that worked   
   >really, really well.   
   >   
   >You can argue with me about whether the new direction worked, but you   
   >can't argue that they knew their Trek and were very careful to make   
   >clear that this is a new continuity, not a bizarre retcon based on never   
   >having seen an episode.   
      
   My complaints about the movie are all within itself, not in the   
   relationship to the old universe.  Well, I've been told that the link   
   between Scotty and Archer's beagle flunks the timeline, and that's a   
   valid point to make, but not the links going forward.   
      
   Asymmetric travel times to and from Vulcan:  fail.   
   Star Wars style monsters without an ecosystem: fail.   
   Thumpy Bangy things, er, cuisinart of doom: Traditional, but fail.   
   Kids straight from school into bridge crew.  Running a ship is people   
   skills, not school larning.  Perhaps Pike is doing an experiment.   
   I'll suspend disbelief on this one.   
   Transport into a non-co-operating ship at warp.  Too powerful -- will   
   wreck future stories in this universe.   
   --   
   Tomorrow is today already.   
   Greg Goss, 1989-01-27   
      
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