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

Santolina chamaecyparissus wrote:
> On Dec 10, 8:02 am, 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.
>>         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?
> 
No.

>>  Or 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.
> 
You appear to be assuming that the end of the 2009 movie does not 
correspond to the beginning of the five year mission.  I would assume 
the opposite.

> 
>> and yet everything he was doing since boarding the ship even
>> surprised him.  Or that Sulu was pretty incompetent for a helmsman and
>> had issues getting out of space dock...  
> 
> 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.
> 
See above.

> 
>>         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.
> 
And yet many of us disagree with "the characters are all the same, just 
younger", seeing the 2009 movie versions as having entirely different 
personalities.

> 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.
> 
I doubt it.

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