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 4:48 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.

What was changed?

The main thing that was changed was Kirk's backstory prior to becoming 
Captain.  But that backstory had been covered in maybe FIVE MINUTES of 
dialogue in just TWO episodes in TOS:  "Obsession" and 
"Operation-Annihilate!"

The other thing that was changed was Uhura sounded more like she was 
from Chicago than from Africa.  And yes, that's one thing I did NOT like.

But the movie went out of its way to reboot the other characters true to 
form:

Spock with Sarek and Amanda;

Spock being bullied by his classmates, which was ONE SENTENCE in 
"Journey to Babel" plus a scene in TAS "Yesteryear" which practically no 
one saw because it was on Saturday morning for the kiddies;

Captain Pike as the first Captain that Spock served under;

McCoy being called "Bones" for the first time,

Scotty as an engineering "miracle worker,"

and even the Kobayashi Maru test!



-- Steven L.


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