XPost: alt.tv.star-trek.tos, rec.arts.movies.current-films, rec.arts.sf.tv   
   From: not@chance.dude   
      
   Dimensional Traveler wrote:   
   > A Watcher wrote:   
   >> trag wrote:   
   "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.   
   >>   
   > If you're going to change the characters and background _that_ _much_,   
   > why not just write something new?  It would probably be easier.   
   >   
      
   No doubt they were selling the brand here, but I, for one, think taking   
   on the challenge of re-inventing well-established characters is   
   enormous.  I think Abrams pulled it off pretty well.  The film is in no   
   way perfect, but then (IMO, at least) only *one* of the old Trek films   
   was perfect: TWOK.   
      
   As I've said many times, I love the old stuff, and feel nobody will ever   
   re-create its magic.  But that's not what the film is trying to do -   
   it's another interpretation of the Trek universe; nothing more, nothing   
   less.  Much like (but much better than) fanfic, as well as the published   
   Trek novels.   
      
   I know some hate ST: 2009 for various reasons, but it rankles me when   
   they insinuate that those of us who liked ST: 2009 are somehow disloyal   
   (not that I feel *you've* done that) and not "real" Trek fans.   
      
   To that, I very graciously say, who died and gave them the right to   
   judge *us*?  And while I'm at it, they can bite me.   
      
   :-D   
      
   Natalie   
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