XPost: alt.tv.star-trek.tos, rec.arts.sf.movies   
   From: david@block.net   
      
   On Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:31:03 -0700, Tim Bruening   
    wrote:   
      
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   >   
   >David Johnston wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Sun, 31 May 2009 23:00:30 -0700, Tim Bruening   
   >>  wrote:   
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   >> >   
   >> >   
   >> >David Johnston wrote:   
   >> >   
   >> >> On Sat, 30 May 2009 18:54:29 -0700, Tim Bruening   
   >> >>  wrote:   
   >> >>   
   >> >> >"selaboc" wrote:   
   >> >> >Tim Bruening  wrote:   
   >> >> >>>   
   >> >> >>> > > I have figured out what Spock should have done:   
   >> >> >>>   
   >> >> >>> > No you haven't, what you've figured out is another way to say the   
   same   
   >> >> >>> > crap you've been saying for weeks now.   
   >> >> >>>   
   >> >> >>> My newest suggestion woud not have involved creating a new timeline   
   or   
   >> >> >>> erasing an existing one.   
   >> >> >>   
   >> >> >> It also means that the entire movie would not have occurred. And that   
   >> >> >> really the heart of your nonsense, *you* don't like the movie and it's   
   >> >> >> plotline so you keep trying to find ways to "undo" it.   
   >> >> >>   
   >> >> >   
   >> >> >The creators could have instead done a movie in which Spock and the   
   >> >> >Next-Gen crew try to save Romulus from a supernova.  I believe that such   
   >> >> >a movie would have been successful.   
   >> >>   
   >> >> I believe such a movie would have bombed.  It certainly wouldn't have   
   >> >> have experienced the success of a fresh start.   
   >> >   
   >> >Would it be because the Romulans have been depicted as our enemies for   
   >> >generations?   
   >>   
   >> No.  It would have bombed because it would have been a Next Generation   
   >> move and people have have had a belly full of the Next Generation.   
   >>   
   >> >   
   >> >I don't buy the idea that the creators had to destroy Vulcan to have a   
   fresh   
   >> >start!   
   >>   
   >> You think they should have destroyed Earth instead?   
   >   
   >Why destroy any planet?   
      
   Because if you don't _change_ something that matters  you don't have a   
   fresh start.   
      
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