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

>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: Wickeddoll [mailto:not@chance.dude]
>  Posted At: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 5:06 PM
>  Posted To: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
>  Conversation: Star Trek: Am I the Only One?
>  Subject: Re: Star Trek: Am I the Only One?
>  
>  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.
>  >
>  
>  Ya ain't gonna please everyone, so I just interpret things for
myself.
>  I thought only Pine and Quinto were true to the personalities created
>  by
>  Shatner and Nimoy - the rest were something else entirely.  Including
>  Urban - he did McCoy's bitching, but I didn't think he got the
>  personality down - he was too hostile all the time.  Kelley's Bones
>  was
>  a fussbudget, but he was affable most of the time.

But remember that you're seeing these characters at an earlier stage of
their lives--Starfleet Academy or thereabouts.  In this movie, this
McCoy had just concluded a messy divorce, and was still bitter and angry
over it.


At least a decade more elapses till we get to the TOS era, and the
characters have acquired more maturity and mellowed somewhat.



-- Steven L.

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