From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: santolina@juno.com   
   Subject: Re: Star Trek: Am I the Only One?   
      
   On Dec 10, 8:02aam, Merrick Baldelli  wrote:   
   > On Wed, 9 Dec 2009 13:05:50 -0800 (PST), 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.   
   >   
   > a a a a Or added phobias to McCoy that he didn't have.   
   Who the fuck cares about trivial shit like that?  Did the new Bones   
   act so substantially like the old Bones that everybody recognized him   
   as Bones, yes or no?   
   >aOr the fact   
   > that Montgomery Scott was well known for knowing Enterprise inside and   
   > out,   
   Er, a dozen years or more in the future, yeah.  Somebody'd not paying   
   attention and it's not me.   
   How do you think Scotty should be depicted a dozen or so years before   
   TOS times?  Maybe jovial, clever, and with a quaint accent?  DING DING   
   DING DING...... Scotty was Scotty.  They changed nothing about him,   
   just put him in a different setting and made him a bit sillier as   
   would befit a much younger man.   
   > and yet everything he was doing since boarding the ship even   
   > surprised him. aOr that Sulu was pretty incompetent for a helmsman and   
   > had issues getting out of space dock... a   
   My, what insightful analysis. How do you think Sulu should be depicted   
   a dozen years or so before his age of competency?  Actually, the new   
   Sulu is almost entirely devoid of personality whatsoever, easily the   
   most forgettable of the core characters.   
   >   
   > a a a a Maybe you need to pay some more attention.   
   >   
   Funny.  All the characters are unchanged in any substantial way from   
   their old depictions.  Kirk is just a more exaggerated version of   
   Kirk, Spock is Spock, Bones is Bones (but with an extra phobia!!!),   
   Scotty and Chekov are younger and sillier versions of themselves, Sulu   
   is Sulu except with even less personality.  The only exception is   
   Uhura, who seems less interested in her career than Spock's potent   
   blend of Vulcan/Human musk.   
   If changing the timeline only changes a character in trivial ways then   
   what was the point of changing the timeline?  Maybe they'll get around   
   to telling us in the next movie, if they can squeeze a little   
   exposition in between all the fucking explosions.   
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