On Sep 20, 12:45 pm, Doug Freyburger  wrote:   
   > This to me is why the Star Trek ffranchise over did time travel stories   
   > to the point I failed to appreciate it in the latest Star Trek: The Time   
   > Travel Reboot Story movie.   
   Now you see, I very much appreciated that bit of time travel   
   tomfoolery because it both cleared out the accumulated underbrush   
   *and* honored and connected to the original.  It was a reboot that   
   found a way to maintain a connection to the existing continuity in a   
   very clever way.  For that I was willing to forgive its being a time   
   travel story, even a "convenetional" one.  (Whereas I will never   
   forgive them for the muddled mess of "Generations", where an arbitrary   
   ban on "normal" time travel in one of the few stories where it should   
   have been used robbed the story of all drama and significance.)   
   And I agree that "Yesterday's Enterprise" was the best of TNG.  When I   
   first saw it, I called my best friend and said, "They just did their   
   'City on the Edge of Forever'."  It was both the moment the new show   
   came of age in my eyes, and the moment when it peaked.  It was never   
   quite that good again, although it did manage to hold very close to   
   that level of quality for several years, before inevitably over-   
   staying its welcome in the last couple of seasons.  (It has long been   
   an axiom in TV that every series stays on the air one or two seasons   
   longer than it should.  JMS knew this and avoided the problem by   
   having his end point and sticking to it.)   
   Regards,   
   Joe   
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