From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: sdlitvin@earthlink.net
Subject: Re: Star Trek: Am I the Only One?

On 12/9/2009 4:51 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
> Santolina chamaecyparissus wrote:
>> On Dec 9, 9:34 am, 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.
>>>
>>
>> Except, none of them act any differently from the old characters.
>> Well, except Uhura, who has a huge schoolgirl crush on Spock.
>> Fascinating.
>>
> And yet most of the complaints include something about how the
> characters act _nothing_ like the previous bearers of those names.

That's right, the critics of the movie fall into two camps: Those who 
think the movie was too derivative of past Trek, and those who think it 
was too different from past Trek.

My theory is that just the shock of seeing entirely new actors playing 
the old familiar parts has unnerved a lot of Trek fans.



-- Steven L.
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