XPost: alt.tv.star-trek.tos, rec.arts.movies.current-films, rec.arts.sf.tv   
   From: your.name@isp.com   
      
   On 12/9/2009 4:48 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:   
   > 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.   
   >>   
   > If you're going to change the characters and background _that_ _much_,   
   > why not just write something new? It would probably be easier.   
      
   But that would require proper creative ability and an actual knowledge of   
   "Star Trek" ... neithr of which exists in Hollyweird these days. Bevis &   
   Butthead started the downhill slide, especially with "Enterprise", and   
   Abrams pulled the chain to flush proper Star Trek down the toilet   :-(   
      
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