XPost: rec.arts.sf.tv, rec.arts.startrek.current
From: ANIM8Rfsk@cox.net
In article <4aa8a058$0$1666$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>,
Dimensional Traveler wrote:
> Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
> > Dimensional Traveler writes:
> >
> >> jojo wrote:
> >>> On Sep 9, 5:20 pm, "Smokie Darling (Annie)"
> >>> wrote:
> >>>> On Sep 9, 8:13 am, nebu...@-rpi-.edu (Joseph Nebus) wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> doc...@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (The Doctor) writes:
> >>>>>> Is this making sense?
> >>>>> No, but if you would actually watch the new movie you would
> >>>>> find
> >>>>> your objections answered. It's a bit of a radical approach, but some
> >>>>> have
> >>>>> found success with it.
> >>>> Or heck, read some of the threads that discuss it, in depth.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>> 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.
>
> Yes I can. :D
And quite accurately; they didn't know their Trek. They didn't even
know Kirk had been killed in Generations, or brought back a couple
different ways. The whole point of the reboot was so they didn't have
to do their homework.
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