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   From: dtravel@sonic.net   
      
   On 6/26/2017 3:04 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:   
   > In article ,   
   >   Dimensional Traveler  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 6/26/2017 2:03 PM, Doc O'Leary wrote:   
   >>> For your reference, records indicate that   
   >>> Wouter Valentijn  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> Another Reboot. That much is certain.   
   >>>   
   >>> Just the opposite.  They announced that Discovery is supposed to be   
   >>> set in the classic “Prime” timeline.  That’s why doing   
   what they’re   
   >>> doing is problematic well beyond any cries of racism or other   
   >>> intolerance.  It was problematic when they did the same thing with   
   >>> Enterprise.  It’s just dumb to depict things 10 or 100 years prior   
   to   
   >>> Kirk as being more advanced than what even Picard had just because our   
   >>> tech has taken off in the present.  It certainly *should* have been a   
   >>> reboot.   
   >>>   
   >>> Either that or, like I’m sure I’ve said before, someone   
   needs to sit   
   >>> down with all the property in the franchise and work out a fully   
   >>> coherent continuity.  One that they can stick to for all *future*   
   >>> production as well, of course.  All this piecemeal shit has become a   
   >>> real anchor around the neck of the Trek universe.   
   >>>   
   >> The "creative" types would hate that.  They want to be able to put their   
   >> own stamp on it without being "hampered" by being consistent with what   
   >> others have done.  Why do you think Abrams burned the whole thing to the   
   >> ground and started over from scratch?  Why do you think every other   
   >> Superman or Spiderman movie is a reboot, origin story?  Because the   
   >> "creatives" want it to be _their_ vision that controls.   
   >   
   > That's partly it.  You've also got the part where the "creatives" won't   
   > (some say can't) read the source material, and nowadays won't watch   
   > source material.  Brannon Braga was apparently proud of having never   
   > seen an episode of real Trek, which is how he ended up writing Zephram   
   > Cochrane as a black woman.   
   >   
   I think the "won't read/view source material" is part of their egotistic   
   "I can do it better! if you just don't bother me with the truth"   
   problem.  So the two are sides of the same metaphorical coin.   
      
   Plus there's the whole "I'll sue you if you ever read or watch something   
   of mine and then ever in your life make something I can claim was   
   unconsciously influenced by my work!" thing.   
      
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