From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: Barnabus1993@yahoo.com   
   Subject: Re: Star Trek: Am I the Only One?   
      
   On Dec 8, 6:03apm, t...@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan ) wrote:   
   > In article <753fb19a-33c6-4faa-8e5c-c57469bfb...@g1g2000pra.go   
   glegroups.com>,   
   > Santolina chamaecyparissus a wrote:   
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   > >Just watched the DVD of the new Trek film and I must say there are a   
   > >couple of things I'm disappointed in. aFirst, the film, but only a   
   > >little. aWhen I first read about the premise and the individuals who   
   > >would be responsible for making it I set my sights rather low. aThis   
   > >outing, I thought, will likely be heavy on pyrotechnics and light on   
   > >everything else. aBut then the reviews started pouring in, and they   
   > >were almost uniformly positive. aWe were assured that fans of the   
   > >various incarnations of Star Trek, as well as the public at large,   
   > >would be thoroughly entertained. aFair enough, I set my sights a   
   > >little higher and was determined to like it. aTurns out my first   
   > >instincts were closer to the mark.   
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   > >Second, I'm disappointed either in myself or popular culture in   
   > >general, but I'm not sure which. aAfter 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).   
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   > >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. aThe answer lies in his destruction of an entire   
   > >planet full of innocent people, but he doesn't care.........oops.   
   I'm not going to say that it was super well written, or that there   
   were *not* plot holes, but um...  You sorta missed something...   
   Soran did travel across time with the intent of doing anything.  That   
   was an accident.   
   > >Sorry, I forgot to note the "spoilers" there. aI just gave away the   
   > >entire plot of the new Star Trek movie. aShoot. aAnd since there are   
   > >no subplots or subtexts of any interest I've basically just summarized   
   > >the whole darn thing. aOh well.   
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   > I liked the movie. aI'm not sure its better than TWOK which still   
   > had the TV continuity and long established characterizations to   
   > draw on, but it's a good start. aAnd there were plenty of subplots.   
   > In fact, the main "stop the bad guy" plot was almost secondary to   
   > the subplots. aYou could actually say the 'A' plot was "Kirk comes   
   > of age" with 'B' character plots of who is   
   > "Spock/Uhuru/Bones/Sulu/Scotty/Checkov" this time and a 'C' stop the   
   > bad guy plot.   
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   > a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a Ted   
   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.   
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