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   Message 18,743 of 20,898   
   Wickeddoll to All   
   Re: So I Wasn't Surprised--   
   23 Dec 09 19:07:01   
   
   From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: not@chance.dude   
   Subject: Re: So I Wasn't Surprised--   
      
   Your Name wrote:   
   > "Wickeddoll"    
   >> Ron wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> I was just marveling at all the people who obviously have such   
   >>> incredibly bad taste... Not your father's Star Trek indeed! Oh,   
   >>> the pain; the pain...   ;-)   
   >> It really was a popcorn flick - just a fun ride for me.  Not real Trek,   
   >> in that the original creative team had nothing to do with it, but I   
   >> thought it was a pretty good facsimile.  Think of all the shows/movies   
   >> that have tried to duplicate Trek magic - can't be done.  But I'd hate   
   >> to see the brand die altogether.  I'm willing to roll with it.   
   >    
   > The brand is dead!! It caught a terminal illness called BeavisNButtheaditis,   
   > died when the two idiots thought up "Enterprise" as a non-Trek Trek show and   
   > had the coffin nailed shut by JJ Abrams. What we're stuck with now is "new   
   > Trek".  :-(   
   >    
   >    
   >    
      
   Thanks for the recurrent "The sky is falling!" updates on the fate of Trek.   
      
   Wishing it were considered dead by the rest of us just ain't gonna make    
   it happen, sweetie.  Original Trek?  Hell no.  Decent facsimile?  I    
   think yes.   
      
   :-D   
      
   Natalie   
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