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


"Steven L."  wrote in message
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> 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.

The shock of having estblished facts simply thrown away has "unnerved" a lot
of fans.

It aint "Star Trek". It's simply a money-grubbing exercise by Hollyweird
hiding behind the name of the original ... like all stupid "reboots" /
"reimaingings" / "remakes".  :-(



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