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   From: dtravel@sonic.net   
      
   On 6/26/2017 4:01 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:   
   > In article ,   
   >   Dimensional Traveler  wrote:   
   >   
   >> 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 ‰裉Prime‰� timeline.    
   That‰菄s why doing what   
   >>>>> they‰菄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‰菄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‰菄m sure I‰菄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.   
   >   
   > Well, yeah, but refusing to watch an ep of Trek when you're making eps of   
   Trek ...   
   >   
   "But then it won't be _MY_ Star Trek!!!"   
      
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