From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: gossg@gossg.org   
   Subject: Re: Star Trek: Am I the Only One?   
      
   Dimensional Traveler  wrote:   
      
   >Santolina chamaecyparissus wrote:   
      
   >> 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.   
      
   I like most of the new cast and characters.  Kirk's "look at me"   
   attitude when demonstrating that he could outwit the impossible   
   challenge was at the edge of believable.     
      
   The Scotty stuff was the worst to me.  Scotty is not a slapstick   
   victim, and the intersystem transporter technology is just wrong.   
   And Scotty would KNOW what happened to the beagle, even if he didn't   
   want to admit it.  (I liked the book's final scene where the missing   
   beagle's waveform is intercepted by the Enterprise, and the automated   
   circuitry in the transporter room reassembles it.  Though this looks   
   like leaving the ship wide-open for bad-guy entry down the road.   
      
   Giving the ship to the academy kids after the emergency mission isn't   
   really believable to me, nor is the legalistic jui jitsu that allows   
   them to swap Spock and Kirk as captain.   
      
   And why did the Vulcans send a million-planet supply of red stuff on a   
   mission that needed a barely visible amount?   
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   Tomorrow is today already.   
   Greg Goss, 1989-01-27    
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