From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: epwise@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: Star Trek Into Darkness

"Al Kaiser"  wrote in
news:52338D3B.14350.startrek@capcity2.synchro.net: 

>   To: Will Dockery
> Will Dockery wrote to All Subject: Re: Star Trek Into Darkness
> 
> 
> >> The Abrams' films are not "so-called "Star Trek" movies", they
> >> are "Star Trek" movies. Maybe they don't fit into your blinkered
> >> view of what is "Star Trek" and what isn't "Star Trek", but they
> >> are "Star Trek", at least as far as the people who own the rights
> >> to that term are concerned. Makes you, and others with similar
> >> opinions, seem very childish! IMHO, of course.
> 
>  WD> Not only are the two J.J. Abrams films "Star Trek", I find
>  WD> them to be pretty darn good Star Trek, personally
> 
> This is where everyone gets into the big arguements.  Are they Trek?
> Yea. Are they good?  Yea.  Spectacular? Yea.  Entertaining?  Yea.
> 
> But..  Because the actors we grew up with are not in there, because
> now they are either "age-ed or dead".  People don't like it.  Because
> they went with an alternative time line, but mixed in Spock from the
> old time line people don't like it and say it's not "real trek".  (Did
> they say that when Kirk met Picard in the Nexus)?
> 
> So like everyone has a you-know-what, everyone has their own opinion
> of the current gender of Star Trek movies.
> 
> My opinion, (IMHO), is that I wish that the next movie could get back
> to the original timeline and prove this to be some sort of alternate
> universe. How to do this?  There could be a number of ways, one could
> be that this is part of the Mirror Universe and now they come back. 
> It could be the mirror universe before the mirror universe went "bad".
>  I'm sure that a slick writer could get it back, (how about JMS doing
> a script, bet he could get it back). 
> 

The mirror universe was already bad during Archer's time.
(And yes, Your Name, Enterprise is real Star Trek.)
 
> Once they get it back they could continue the early years and we could
> even see some of the characters that we liked from TOS, Sarek and
> Amada for one who are dead in this time line, and some of those races
> that were show in TOS and how we eithere dealt with them or made them
> our friends. 
> 
> As I said IMHO and I'm sure this will start a firestorm.
> 
> 
>  -=>  Al Kaiser n1api@cox.net <=-
> 
> Write soon Will!
> 
> Al Kaiser - Meriden, CT, 13-Sep-2013 at 18:32.
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