From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: not@chance.dude   
   Subject: Re: Star Trek: Am I the Only One?   
      
   A Watcher wrote:   
   > Ted Nolan   
   >>>> 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.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Of course that will confuse the casual viewers who are really into ST.   
   >>>>   
   >>> Whoops, some typos in that post.:   
   >>>   
   >>> Isn't that a point of the movie.   
   >>>   
   >>> Of course that will confuse the casual viewers who aren't really into    
   >>> ST.   
   >>   
   >> I was wondering if that was snark or a typo :-)   
   >>   
   >> I don't think it will confuse the casual though.  They know "Kirk ==    
   >> Captain",   
   >> "Spock == Pointy ears + logical", "Bones == doctor + curmudgeon",    
   >> "Uhura == attractive black lady + competent",   
   >> "scotty == engineer + 'I canna change the laws of physics' schtick".   
   >>   
   >> All that's still there.  The *non* casual viewers will complain how it's   
   >> all wrong once you get past the first layer, the casual viewers will get   
   >> what they expected.   
   >>   
   >>                 Ted   
   >    
   > Don't the serious ST fans always complain. :-)   
      
   YUP - always have, even for the "real" Trek.   
      
   Natalie   
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