From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: not@chance.dude   
   Subject: Re: Star Trek:  Am I the Only One?   
      
   Steven Litvintchouk wrote:   
   >>  From: Wickeddoll    
   >>     
   >>  Dimensional Traveler wrote:   
   >>  > Santolina chamaecyparissus wrote:   
   A Watcher  wrote:   
   >>  >>> trag wrote:   
   "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.   
   >>  >   
   >>     
   >>  Ya ain't gonna please everyone, so I just interpret things for   
   > myself.   
   >>  I thought only Pine and Quinto were true to the personalities created   
   >>  by   
   >>  Shatner and Nimoy - the rest were something else entirely.  Including   
   >>  Urban - he did McCoy's bitching, but I didn't think he got the   
   >>  personality down - he was too hostile all the time.  Kelley's Bones   
   >>  was   
   >>  a fussbudget, but he was affable most of the time.   
   >    
   > But remember that you're seeing these characters at an earlier stage of   
   > their lives--Starfleet Academy or thereabouts.  In this movie, this   
   > McCoy had just concluded a messy divorce, and was still bitter and angry   
   > over it.   
   >    
   >    
   > At least a decade more elapses till we get to the TOS era, and the   
   > characters have acquired more maturity and mellowed somewhat.   
   >    
   >    
   >    
   > -- Steven L.   
   >   
      
   Yeah.  I still didn't like him. LOL   
      
   Natalie   
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