XPost: alt.startrek, alt.tv.star-trek, alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise   
   XPost: rec.arts.startrek.current   
   From: anybody@anywhere-anytime.com   
      
   In article , The Merry   
   Piper  wrote:   
      
   > On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 19:50:28 -0500, Flip Wilson    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   > >Only Shatner can play Kirk.   
   >   
   > Wrong.   
   >   
   > >Only Nimoy can play Spock.   
   >   
   > Wrong again.   
   >   
   > >They're icons for crying out loud.   
   >   
   > James Bond, Sherlock Holmes, Batman (et. al.)   
      
   Of course other actors can TRY to play the role, but is extremely rare   
   for a changeover to work. People often give franchises like these as   
   examples, but even in these most fans actually only like one or two   
   actors in the role. They put up with the others because they have to.   
   James Bond (for example) is almost always said to be Sean Connery.   
      
   Replacing the actor isn't really any different to the "remake" /   
   "update" problem in the movies - you get something pretending to use   
   the same name, but in reality is full of lots of silly new ideas that   
   don't really fit.   
      
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