From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
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Subject: Re: Kirk and Spock in the news, again (link)

In article <539c44aa$0$2960$e4fe514c@news2.news.xs4all.nl>, Wouter
Valentijn  wrote:
> Daniel schreef op 14-6-2014 13:59:
> > On 14/06/14 17:29, Wouter Valentijn wrote:
> >> Your Name schreef op 14-6-2014 00:05:
> >>> In article <539af9f9$0$2964$e4fe514c@news2.news.xs4all.nl>, Wouter
> >>> Valentijn  wrote:
> >>>> Your Name schreef op 13-6-2014 08:12:
> >>>>> In article , ToolPackinMama
> >>>>>  wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> http://www.cnet.com/news/americans-think-star-trek-is-t
e-future-not-st
> >>>>>> ar-wars-study-says/
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Well, DUH!
> >>>>> Star Wars is set "a long time ago in a galaxy far far away".
> >>>>> Star Trek is set in Earth's near-ish future.
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> ROFL
> >>>>
> >>>> I'd take Star Trek over Star Wars any day.
> >>>>
> >>>> Not that I'm totally anti Star Wars. I liked Star Wars (IV) and TESB
> >>>> very much. ROTJ was a lesser movie and the prequels... Never mind them.
> >>>
> >>> The only real issue with Star Wars is that there was such a long time
> >>> between the trilogies, meaning they look quite different due to
> >>> technology improvements, differeing style, over-the-top fight scenes,
> >>> etc. Many of the later additions to the Original Trilogy look out of
> >>> place with the older film quality / style. If all six (and soon a
> >>> ridiculously tacked-on third Trilogy) had been made continuously like
> >>> "Harry Potter", for example, then those differences would have been
> >>> much less noticeable.
> >>
> >> "Improvements"... Not a word I'd use. :-)
> >> Nah, I think the stories themselves took a nose dive. They became more
> >> 'kiddiefied'.
> >> I'd keep 'Star Wars' and "The Empire Stikes Back', but the rest....
> >>
> > Seems to me, George Lucas, originally, made the discussion to produce
> > Star Wars (i.e. chapter 4 in his original nine part storyline), whoever
> > was able to convince him, much, much later, that parts one through three
> > were worthwhile .... THAT PERSON SHOULD HAVE BEEN TAKEN OUT THE BACK AND
> > SHOT!!
> >
> > If they went anywhere, after 4, 5 and 6, it should have been 7 then!!
> 
> THRAWN!

For those who believe in "canon", the Thrawn story is now officially
killed off and consigned to history. The new Trilogy may or may not
over-write some or all of it.
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