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   jl to David Johnston   
   Re: Alternate time-line excuse for lazy    
   03 Jun 09 19:15:03   
   
   From: jl@charter.net   
      
   Yeah...and he might end up in the old timeline when Uhura didn't have the   
   hots for him!   
      
      
   "David Johnston"  wrote in message   
   news:54d525df93bu2mq4i43a5u34h60higuhk1@4ax.com...   
   > On Sun, 31 May 2009 10:09:54 -0500, pygar77@webtv.net (MES Jones)   
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>I wonder if it is a bit convenient for writers to not have to stick to   
   >>the old story line.   It's like they said, lets find a way to have all   
   >>kinds of different stories and not be constrained by the previous   
   >>stories.   
   >>  I think you can still do lots of stuff for new movies.  You just have   
   >>to do more work to meld it in with the original series.   Enterprize did   
   >>quite a good job at that.   
   >   
   > No it didn't.  Enterprise failed.  Massively.  Nearly took the whole   
   > franchise down with it.   
   >   
   >   
   > It is just lazyness on there part it seems.   
   >>Either that or a desparate attemt at milking more from the franchise.   
   >>  They better be carefull though.  They may be shooting themselves in   
   >>the foot.   
   >>  Personaly, I think it would be cool for Dr. Who to show up and fix the   
   >>timeline.  Although strictly speaking,  since Spock met himself I don't   
   >>think the new timeline would stand up anyway.  You can't tell me the   
   >>young Spock won't try to fix it and save Vulcan and his mom.   
   >   
   > Young Spock won't try to fix it and save Vulcan and his mom.  He   
   > realises that either he would be playing games with the stability of   
   > the entire universe, or he'd just be spawning a new universe with a   
   > new Amanda and his mother would still be just as dead.   
      
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