From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: gene@genek_hates_spammers.com   
   Subject: Re: Star Trek: Am I the Only One?   
      
   "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   
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