From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: jax@knickersjaxtrawstudios.com   
   Subject: Re: Abrams' Trek Sequel To Be Released 29 June 2012   
      
   Your Name wrote:   
   > "Anim8rFSK"  wrote in message   
   > news:ANIM8Rfsk-43D540.13145609012010@news.dc1.easynews.com...   
   >> In article <1cOdnUo3W_X4C9XWnZ2dnUVZ_uidnZ2d@earthlink.com>,   
   >>  "Steven L."  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Paramount has announced that "Star Trek 2," the sequel to Abrams'   
   >>> "Star Trek" film, will be released in theaters on 29 June 2012.   
   >>>   
   >>> That's the last weekend before the Fourth of July, which helps   
   >>> ticket sales--if Abrams can stay on schedule.  (The schedule for   
   >>> his first film slipped by some six months.)   
   >>   
   >> Yeah, but I don't think that was his fault; from everything I've   
   >> heard, the film was done by the original release date.   
   >   
   > No doubt it was the studio idiots trying to get Kirk and Spock to be a   
   > female characters, the computer not to talk, ... plus another miliion   
   > more idotic changes.  :-\   
      
   It was because they realised that the movie was good enough to be a major    
   summer Blockbuster instead of a second-string winter release movie; that is    
   it was in a league above the rest of the series post-TMP.   
      
      
   Ian   
      
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