XPost: rec.arts.sf.tv, rec.arts.startrek.current   
   From: dtravel@sonic.net   
      
   Joe Pfeiffer wrote:   
   > Dimensional Traveler  writes:   
   >   
   >> Joe Pfeiffer wrote:   
   >>> Dimensional Traveler  writes:   
   >>>> *notices none of the "It Was Great" crowd trying to show me I'm wrong*   
   >>> Of course not.  I agree with you on many of the flaws -- I came out of   
   >>> the theatre saying it was great fun, but would have been improved a lot   
   >>> if it had had a comprehensible plot.  I'm disagreeing on whether they   
   >>> ash-canned to old continuity because they couldn't be bothered to do   
   >>> their homework (your view), or if they gave a much-needed kick to a very   
   >>> tired franchise (mine).   
   >> Actually, my view is closer to "they ash-canned the old continuity   
   >> deliberately because the whole point was to get people to think of   
   >> them when someone says 'Star Trek' rather than the people who actually   
   >> made 'Star Trek' a well known, valuable property".  :-P   
   >   
   > If you'd just come around as far as "...to get people to think of the   
   > new movie instead of a tired old franchise whose value had been as   
   > systematically destroyed by B&B as Chrysler's was by Daimler" we'd be in   
   > complete agreement.   
      
   TOS is still of value.  :)   
      
   More seriously, Paramount and Hollyweird still consider it a valuable   
   franchise.  Orci and Abrahms are simultaneously trying to basically   
   steal some of the glory, name recognition and prestige associated with   
   'Star Trek' while being too frigging lazy to think up something   
   original.  So we ended up with this half-baked abortion of a movie.   
     'Star Trek'   
   (2009) is probably the biggest Mary-Sue story in history.   
      
   (Nemo's ship was the Island from 'Lost' in space.  The whole movie was   
   'Lost In Space'!!!  *snicker* )   
      
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