From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
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   Subject: Re: Star Trek: Am I the Only One?   
      
      
   "Steven L." wrote in message   
   news:T4udnZuhIbWoz73WnZ2dnUVZ_jWdnZ2d@earthlink.com...   
   > 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.   
      
   The shock of having estblished facts simply thrown away has "unnerved" a lot   
   of fans.   
      
   It aint "Star Trek". It's simply a money-grubbing exercise by Hollyweird   
   hiding behind the name of the original ... like all stupid "reboots" /   
   "reimaingings" / "remakes". :-(   
      
      
      
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