From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: sdlitvin@earthlink.net
Subject: Re: Star Trek (2009) Someone explain this to me?



"Wouter Valentijn"  wrote in message 
news:4ea9be6b$0$6841$e4fe514c@news2.news.xs4all.nl:

> "Steven L."  schreef in bericht
> news:G_CdnVey4NAFOzTTnZ2dnUVZ_jGdnZ2d@earthlink.com...
> >
> >
> > "Bast"  wrote in message
> > news:j8c731$guf$1@dont-email.me:
> >
> >> Steven L. wrote:
> >> > "Frosty"  wrote in message
> >> > news:j8a4tk$kpu$1@dont-email.me:
> >> >
> >> >>> Where did this "repeat offender" movie backstory even come from ?
> >> >>>
> >> >>> TOS only mentioned that Kirk had found a way to modify a test that no
> >> >>> one else ever thought of.
> >> >>> Ingenuity,...is not something usually thought of as Bad Boy Anarchist
> >> >>> behaviour.
> >> >>
> >> >> Romulans go back in time, attack the Kelvin, Kirk's dad dies. Which is
> >> >> slightly different from Kirk's dad seeing him become Captain of the
> >> >> Enterprise.
> >> >
> >> > Also because of that, Kirk never has a biological brother Sam like he
> >> > did in the TOS universe.  He grew up an only child with a stepfather
> >> > with whom he evidently did not get along.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > -- Steven L.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Which still says,...That Movie has nothing to do with REAL STAR TREK
> >
> > It's a reboot, just like the 2000s Battlestar Galactica was a reboot of
> > the 1970s series.  That meant that the basic concept was the same, but the
> > details are all different, updated to reflect a different time with a
> > different audience.
> >
> > The new Battlestar Galactica downplayed or even dropped the "Chariots of
> > the Gods" mythology of the 1970s series, and replaced it with an allegory
> > of the War on Terror.
>
> In my opinion they did even more so!
> In the 1970's show and in G80 they arrived in the 'now'.
> In the Reboot they did arive in our prehistory. Exactly 'Chariots of the
> Gods'.

I said:  The details are all different.  The basic concept is the same.

In Abrams' Star Trek, Kirk finally gets the captaincy, Spock ends up 
second in command, and Pike ends up in a wheelchair.  Just like in TOS.  
But how they got there is totally different.

This, btw, is a favorite theme of Abrams and his favorite writer 
Lindelof:  The universe course-correcting itself.  Details may change 
but it converges to the same end result.



-- Steven L.


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