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   From: dtravel@sonic.net   
      
   Santolina chamaecyparissus wrote:   
   > On Dec 9, 9:34 am, 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.   
   >>   
   >   
   > Except, none of them act any differently from the old characters.   
   > Well, except Uhura, who has a huge schoolgirl crush on Spock.   
   > Fascinating.   
   >   
   And yet most of the complaints include something about how the   
   characters act _nothing_ like the previous bearers of those names.   
      
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