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


"JRStern"  wrote in message 
news:mscuh596a8v06fl212n6q1mijtsr39h0ua@4ax.com...
> On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 16:42:54 -0800 (PST), Santolina chamaecyparissus
>  wrote:
>
>>Second, I'm disappointed either in myself or popular culture in
>>general, but I'm not sure which.  After all, consider the
>>"story" (I'll avoid the temptation to compose a long essay on how
>>threadbare it was and just leave the word in scare quotes).  Decimated
>>by the loss of his family, a mad scientist named Soran skips across
>>space and time looking for some sort of emotional resolution to his
>>devastating loss.
>
> The technobabble was very weak, and saying it's an alternate timeline
> does not fix that.
>
> Blowing up two planets in the opening act, violates pretty nearly
> every conceivable dramatic guideline.
> ...

A good (MHO) episode of Enterprise blew up Earth just
to get things going.  So there's precedent. 


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