From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: macthevorlon@yahoo.com   
   Subject: Re: Star Trek: Am I the Only One?   
      
   A Watcher wrote:   
   > Wickeddoll wrote:   
   >> Steven L. wrote:   
   >>  GeneK wrote:   
   >>>> "A Watcher" wrote in message   
   >>>>> 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.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Of course that will confuse the casual viewers who are really   
   >>>>> into ST.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> It's THE point of the movie, i.e., "this is why our new Trek is   
   >>>> different   
   >>>> from the old Trek but still fits into canon." But casual viewers   
   >>>> couldn't   
   >>>> care less about canon, and for longtime viewers, "this is a   
   >>>> reimagining of Trek with a new canon" would be probably be   
   >>>> explanation enough   
   >>>> for a good film and "fitting into canon" won't redeem a bad one.   
   >>>> GeneK   
   >>>   
   >>> This movie vindicated MY position on the future of Trek, which I had   
   >>> stated here before (check the Google archive):   
   >>>   
   >>> Star Trek does NOT require the original actors, nor the original   
   >>> sets, nor the original ship models, nor the original props.  The   
   >>> basic concept would work with any actors and any type of ship (as   
   >>> long as it was large enough to hold a varied crew).   
   >>>   
   >>> Critics have to deal with the passage of time:  James Doohan is   
   >>> gone, DeForest Kelley is gone, and the other actors are quite old   
   >>> now--too old for any more swashbuckling derring-do.  If a TOS-type   
   >>> series is to have ANY future, it HAS to be rebooted from a new cast   
   >>> of actors. Otherwise the only other alternative is to let Star Trek   
   >>> die off once and for all.   
   >>>   
   >>> I doubt that Abrams' critics would be happy about that.  If   
   >>> production of the movie had fallen through for any reason, they   
   >>> would be the first ones lamenting that "TOS is dead, too bad."   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> --   
   >>> Steven L.   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> They're *still* saying it's dead.   
   >>   
   >> May they grieve in peace, cuz I'm looking forward to the next film.   
   >>   
   >> Natalie   
   >   
   > "They" don't have to watch.  They can keep watching reruns of TOS.   
      
   ...or they could quit watching Trek, period, ....which is pretty much   
   what I've done.  I didn't watch any Trek between the end of "Enterprise"   
   and "Star Trek" (2009) on DVD.  I have no great attraction to Trek   
   anymore; I can take it or leave it.  I don't own TOS, TAS, TNG, DS9, VOY   
   or ENT on DVD except for the Borg Collection (Collective?), which I got   
   for the effects in VOY "Scorpion I & II."  When the next movie comes   
   out, I'll wait for the DVD.   
      
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