From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: anthonybucklandnospam@telus.net   
   Subject: Re: Star Trek:  Am I the Only One?   
      
      
   "JRStern"  wrote in message    
   news:mscuh596a8v06fl212n6q1mijtsr39h0ua@4ax.com...   
   > On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 16:42:54 -0800 (PST), Santolina chamaecyparissus   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >>Second, I'm disappointed either in myself or popular culture in   
   >>general, but I'm not sure which.  After all, consider the   
   >>"story" (I'll avoid the temptation to compose a long essay on how   
   >>threadbare it was and just leave the word in scare quotes).  Decimated   
   >>by the loss of his family, a mad scientist named Soran skips across   
   >>space and time looking for some sort of emotional resolution to his   
   >>devastating loss.   
   >   
   > The technobabble was very weak, and saying it's an alternate timeline   
   > does not fix that.   
   >   
   > Blowing up two planets in the opening act, violates pretty nearly   
   > every conceivable dramatic guideline.   
   > ...   
      
   A good (MHO) episode of Enterprise blew up Earth just   
   to get things going.  So there's precedent.    
      
      
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