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

On Dec 10, 8:02aam, Merrick Baldelli  wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Dec 2009 13:05:50 -0800 (PST), 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.
>
> a a a a Or added phobias to McCoy that he didn't have.
Who the fuck cares about trivial shit like that?  Did the new Bones
act so substantially like the old Bones that everybody recognized him
as Bones, yes or no?
>aOr the fact
> that Montgomery Scott was well known for knowing Enterprise inside and
> out,
Er, a dozen years or more in the future, yeah.  Somebody'd not paying
attention and it's not me.
How do you think Scotty should be depicted a dozen or so years before
TOS times?  Maybe jovial, clever, and with a quaint accent?  DING DING
DING DING...... Scotty was Scotty.  They changed nothing about him,
just put him in a different setting and made him a bit sillier as
would befit a much younger man.
> and yet everything he was doing since boarding the ship even
> surprised him. aOr that Sulu was pretty incompetent for a helmsman and
> had issues getting out of space dock... a
My, what insightful analysis. How do you think Sulu should be depicted
a dozen years or so before his age of competency?  Actually, the new
Sulu is almost entirely devoid of personality whatsoever, easily the
most forgettable of the core characters.
>
> a a a a Maybe you need to pay some more attention.
>
Funny.  All the characters are unchanged in any substantial way from
their old depictions.  Kirk is just a more exaggerated version of
Kirk, Spock is Spock, Bones is Bones (but with an extra phobia!!!),
Scotty and Chekov are younger and sillier versions of themselves, Sulu
is Sulu except with even less personality.  The only exception is
Uhura, who seems less interested in her career than Spock's potent
blend of Vulcan/Human musk.
If changing the timeline only changes a character in trivial ways then
what was the point of changing the timeline?  Maybe they'll get around
to telling us in the next movie, if they can squeeze a little
exposition in between all the fucking explosions.
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