From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: not@chance.dude
Subject: Re: Star Trek:  Am I the Only One?

Steven Litvintchouk wrote:
>>  From: Wickeddoll 
>>  
>>  Dimensional Traveler wrote:
>>  > Santolina chamaecyparissus wrote:
A Watcher  wrote:
>>  >>> trag wrote:
"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.
>

Yeah.  I still didn't like him. LOL

Natalie
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