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

Dimensional Traveler  wrote:

>Santolina chamaecyparissus wrote:

>> 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.

I like most of the new cast and characters.  Kirk's "look at me"
attitude when demonstrating that he could outwit the impossible
challenge was at the edge of believable.  

The Scotty stuff was the worst to me.  Scotty is not a slapstick
victim, and the intersystem transporter technology is just wrong.
And Scotty would KNOW what happened to the beagle, even if he didn't
want to admit it.  (I liked the book's final scene where the missing
beagle's waveform is intercepted by the Enterprise, and the automated
circuitry in the transporter room reassembles it.  Though this looks
like leaving the ship wide-open for bad-guy entry down the road.

Giving the ship to the academy kids after the emergency mission isn't
really believable to me, nor is the legalistic jui jitsu that allows
them to swap Spock and Kirk as captain.

And why did the Vulcans send a million-planet supply of red stuff on a
mission that needed a barely visible amount?
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