From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: Paul.Duggan@jcu.edu.au   
   Subject: Re: Star Trek (2009) Someone explain this to me?   
      
   On Nov 17, 5:07apm, Akira Norimaki  wrote:   
   > Duggy wrote:   
   > > [Star Trek XI]   
   > >>>>>> Agreed, on both. It's a funny ride but the plot is rather pointless.   
   > >>>>> So it's an action film.   
   > >>>> Yeah, pretty much. An action movie in space.   
   > >>> It sells.   
   > >> I can understand why. It would have been nice to have something more for   
   > >> this franchise but that's what we have now.   
   > > Thing is franchises have to be blockbusters these days.   
   > > You want a quality thoughtful film you're going to need to do a random   
   > > no-budget film with no franchise attached.   
   > > Moon, for example.   
   > Or, "The Man from Earth"... and, well, I don't recall anything else   
   > recent at the moment. LOL. I'm sure there are others though, there must be.   
   I liked "Blindness", "Code 46", "Cube", "Cypher"...   
   > > ST was clearly a TOS episode made too long (yes, I know it was the 2-   
   > > part pilot for Star Trek: "Phase 2" based on an unused "Genesis II"   
   > > idea) so yeah, it was Trek. a2... yeah, a bit too much action, but   
   > > very STTOS plot. a5... was a very Star Trek plot... but that doesn't   
   > > mean it was good. aI think 6 was as well...   
   > > The first 3 Next Gen films were (in varying ways) very TNG. aNemesis   
   > > was a whole lot of different films... including Bond... thrown   
   > > together.   
   > Maybe Generation,   
   OK.   
   > but I disagree on First Contact. Unless you are saying   
   > that FC was a ST:TOS movie, in that case I sort of agree. The   
   > kirkization of Picard in FC was complete(d).   
   OK, yeah, Picard as action hero wasn't very TNG... but big borg   
   episode was... they even had to reset the Borg to do it.   
   > Insurrection and Nemesis don't exist. I had them removed from my memory.   
   > They are god awful things of evil. :P   
   I didn't mind Insurrection.  I had flaws but I liked it.   
   ===   
   = DUG.   
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