XPost: alt.tv.star-trek.tos, rec.arts.movies.current-films, rec.arts.sf.tv   
   From: stocksami@earthlink.net   
      
   A Watcher wrote:   
   > trag wrote:   
   >> On Dec 9, 9:56 am, "Smokie Darling (Annie)"    
   >> wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> I agree with Ted here.  The whole Soran plot was just a device   
   >>> (mcguffin, if I may), the real plot was reintroducing all the   
   >>> characters that most ST viewers "know", and the new interactions based   
   >>> on a certain event that occurred.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> That's not  the Kirk that I "know".   
   >>   
   >   
   > Isn't a point of the latest movie?  Changing their past changed the   
   > characters we knew in the original ST.  Now they can go on and make new   
   > movies based on these different characters.  There's no end to it.   
   >   
   > Of course that will confuse the casual viewers who are really into ST.   
   >   
      
   Whoops, some typos in that post.:   
      
   Isn't that a point of the movie.   
      
   Of course that will confuse the casual viewers who aren't really into ST.   
      
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