From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: dtravel@sonic.net   
   Subject: Re: Star Trek: Am I the Only One?   
      
   A Watcher wrote:   
   > trag wrote:   
   >> On Dec 9, 9:56 am, "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.   
   >    
   If you're going to change the characters and background _that_ _much_,    
   why not just write something new?  It would probably be easier.   
      
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