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

"Steven L."  wrote in message
> The OP started out by saying that the movie was too derivative of years and 
> years of past Trek plots,
>
> but now you're saying that the movie wasn't real Star Trek.
>
> That's a contradiction.

Not necessarily.  If you take an old plot for anything and reuse it but toss
out 
whatever else besides the action that gave the original its character and then 
jack up the noise and FX, it's quite possible to end up with something that is 
highly derivative of the original but is not "faithful" to the spirit of the 
original.  Pick any one of the many remakes of classic films that litter the 
average video store and it's sure to have fans of its original making the same 
gripe, justified or not.

GeneK

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