From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: dtravel@sonic.net   
   Subject: Re: Star Trek: Am I the Only One?   
      
   Steven L. wrote:   
   > On 12/9/2009 4:51 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:   
   >> Santolina chamaecyparissus wrote:   
   >>> On Dec 9, 9:34 am, 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.   
   >>>>   
   >>>   
   >>> Except, none of them act any differently from the old characters.   
   >>> Well, except Uhura, who has a huge schoolgirl crush on Spock.   
   >>> Fascinating.   
   >>>   
   >> And yet most of the complaints include something about how the   
   >> characters act _nothing_ like the previous bearers of those names.   
   >    
   > That's right, the critics of the movie fall into two camps: Those who    
   > think the movie was too derivative of past Trek, and those who think it    
   > was too different from past Trek.   
   >    
   > My theory is that just the shock of seeing entirely new actors playing    
   > the old familiar parts has unnerved a lot of Trek fans.   
   >    
   You miss the point then.   
      
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