From Newsgroup: rec.arts.drwho.moderated
From Address: daibhidchenedelh@aol.com
Subject: Re: New American series

On 07 Oct 2012, Daibhid Ceanaideach  wrote:

>> if that chance was virtually zero beforehand. It also makes a
>> confused mess of the franchise as a whole since nobody knows which
>> version you're talking about when you say "Star Trek" - the proper
>> one, Beavis & Butthead's silly Enterprise, or JJ Abram's inconsistent
>> "new Star Trek". 
> 
> Wait, why isn't Enterprise proper Trek? It *is* meant to be in the
> same continuity as the original! (It's a total continuity mess, sure,
> but how much Doctor Who would survive that argument? Probably only one
> Gallifrey story, for a start.)

Point withdrawn, since I've just noticed that I already invited the 
interpretation of "it's not 'proper X' if it didn't work, even if it's 
meant to be in continuity" with my dismissal of Galactica 1980...

-- 
Dave
The problems in this world are not caused by those who love.
They're caused by those who hate.
--Arthur, King of Time and Space.

--- Synchronet 3.15a-Linux NewsLink 1.92-mlp
 * Origin: Androgum Vegetarian Society (1:2320/105.97)
--- SBBSecho 2.12-Linux
 * Origin: telnet & http://cco.ath.cx - Dial-Up: 502-875-8938 (1:2320/105.1)