From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: macthevorlon@yahoo.com   
   Subject: Re: Star Trek: Am I the Only One?   
      
   Dimensional Traveler wrote:   
   > A Watcher wrote:   
   >> trag wrote:   
   >>> On Dec 9, 9:56 am, "Smokie Darling (Annie)"    
   >>> wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> I agree with Ted here.  The whole Soran plot was just a device   
   >>>> (mcguffin, if I may), the real plot was reintroducing all the   
   >>>> characters that most ST viewers "know", and the new interactions   
   >>>> based on a certain event that occurred.   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> That's not  the Kirk that I "know".   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> Isn't a point of the latest movie?  Changing their past changed the   
   >> characters we knew in the original ST.  Now they can go on and make   
   >> new movies based on these different characters.  There's no end to   
   >> it.   
   >>   
   >> Of course that will confuse the casual viewers who are really into   
   >> ST.   
   >>   
   > If you're going to change the characters and background _that_ _much_,   
   > why not just write something new?  It would probably be easier.   
      
   Then, they wouldn't have been able to bank on the Trek name.  Box office   
   wouldn't have been as big.   
      
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