From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: fakename@nomail.invalid   
   Subject: Re: Star Trek (2009) Someone explain this to me?   
      
      
      
   Steven L. wrote:   
   > "ToolPackinMama"  wrote in message   
   > news:j855sn$v3r$1@dont-email.me:   
   >   
   >> PIKE: Without transporters, we can't beam off the ship, we can't assist   
   >> Vulcan, we can't do our job. Mister Kirk, Mister Sulu, Engineer Olson,   
   >> will space-jump from the shuttle. You will land on that machine they   
   >> lowered into the atmosphere that's scrambling our gear. You'll get   
   >> inside. You'll disable it, then you'll beam back to the ship. Mister   
   >> Spock, I'm leaving you in command of the Enterprise. Once we have   
   >> transport capabilities, communications back up, you'll contact   
   >> Starfleet, report what the hell's going on here. And if all else fails,   
   >> fall back, rendezvous with the fleet in the Laurentian system. Kirk,   
   >> I'm promoting you to first officer.   
   >>   
   >> KIRK: What?   
   >>   
   >> SPOCK: Captain, please, I apologize. The complexities of Human pranks   
   >> escape me.   
   >>   
   >> PIKE: It's not a prank, Spock. And I'm not the Captain, you are. Let's   
   >> go. ===   
   >>   
   >> That is the scene where Cadet Kirk, who is a stowaway that is not even   
   >> supposed to be on the ship, is promoted to first officer of Pike's   
   >> Enterprise.  Kirk was called on the carpet for cheating on a test   
   >> earlier the same day, which is why he was not even supposed to be on   
   >> the ship... he was supposed to stay behind.   
   >   
   > Because unlike the TV series, the writers had to get Kirk from "repeat   
   > offender" in Iowa to captain of the Enterprise in one 2 1/2 hour movie.   
   >   
   > There was no time for a richer backstory like Kirk serving on the   
   > Farragut and the Republic, as was the case in TOS.   
    -- Steven L.   
      
      
      
      
      
   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.   
      
   I think painting Kirk as a morally defunct social misfit, was the biggest    
   problem with the last movie.   
   And the problems went on from there.   
      
      
      
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