From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: macthevorlon@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: Star Trek: Am I the Only One?

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.

Then, they wouldn't have been able to bank on the Trek name.  Box office
wouldn't have been as big.

-- 
Mac Breck (KoshN)
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"Babylon 5: Crusade" (1999) - "War Zone"
Galen (to Gideon): "I've been penalized before for helping other
people.  I've been trying to decide whether or not I should risk it
again."


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