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

Steven L. wrote:
> 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.
> 
You miss the point then.

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