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

Mac Breck wrote:
> Anim8rFSK wrote:
>> In article ,
>>  "Your Name"  wrote:
>>
>>> "Smokie Darling (Annie)"  wrote in message
>>>
> news:08e41785-e42f-4238-865c-31efceb6d2af@u16g2000pru.googlegroups.com...
>>>> On Dec 9, 9:33 am, 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".
>>>> Which is why I put it in quotes.  They have the same names, but
>>>> because of a certain event, they have changed (some a little, some a
>>>> lot).
>>> "Certain events"
>>> Translation: Nobody in Hollyweird knows (nor cares) how to make real
>>> Star Trek any more. In fact few people in Hollyweird know how to
>>> make anything at all, so they butcher old shows / movies instead.
>> That's exactly the point; they had writers too lazy and intellectually
>> dishonest to do their homework.
> 
> ...and they made a TON of money doing that, so what has the audience
> taught them?
> 
That the rugrats who go to see movies in theatres these days have such 
severe cases of ADD that they can't remember the last movie they saw so 
they keep seeing the same one over and over again.

-- 
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