From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: JRStern@foobar.invalid   
   Subject: Re: Star Trek:  Am I the Only One?   
      
   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.   
      
   But the "plot" was just a device to run characters around doing   
   schtick.  This is how the current generation of screenwriters and   
   hollywood suits likes it, maybe the audience likes it too, but I call   
   it "attention deficit theater" and I despise it.   
      
   Too.   
      
   J.   
      
      
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