From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: epwise@yahoo.com   
   Subject: Re: Star Trek Into Darkness   
      
   "Al Kaiser"  wrote in   
   news:52338D3B.14350.startrek@capcity2.synchro.net:    
      
   >   To: Will Dockery   
   > Will Dockery wrote to All Subject: Re: Star Trek Into Darkness   
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   > >> The Abrams' films are not "so-called "Star Trek" movies", they   
   > >> are "Star Trek" movies. Maybe they don't fit into your blinkered   
   > >> view of what is "Star Trek" and what isn't "Star Trek", but they   
   > >> are "Star Trek", at least as far as the people who own the rights   
   > >> to that term are concerned. Makes you, and others with similar   
   > >> opinions, seem very childish! IMHO, of course.   
   >    
   >  WD> Not only are the two J.J. Abrams films "Star Trek", I find   
   >  WD> them to be pretty darn good Star Trek, personally   
   >    
   > This is where everyone gets into the big arguements.  Are they Trek?   
   > Yea. Are they good?  Yea.  Spectacular? Yea.  Entertaining?  Yea.   
   >    
   > But..  Because the actors we grew up with are not in there, because   
   > now they are either "age-ed or dead".  People don't like it.  Because   
   > they went with an alternative time line, but mixed in Spock from the   
   > old time line people don't like it and say it's not "real trek".  (Did   
   > they say that when Kirk met Picard in the Nexus)?   
   >    
   > So like everyone has a you-know-what, everyone has their own opinion   
   > of the current gender of Star Trek movies.   
   >    
   > My opinion, (IMHO), is that I wish that the next movie could get back   
   > to the original timeline and prove this to be some sort of alternate   
   > universe. How to do this?  There could be a number of ways, one could   
   > be that this is part of the Mirror Universe and now they come back.    
   > It could be the mirror universe before the mirror universe went "bad".   
   >  I'm sure that a slick writer could get it back, (how about JMS doing   
   > a script, bet he could get it back).    
   >    
      
   The mirror universe was already bad during Archer's time.   
   (And yes, Your Name, Enterprise is real Star Trek.)   
       
   > Once they get it back they could continue the early years and we could   
   > even see some of the characters that we liked from TOS, Sarek and   
   > Amada for one who are dead in this time line, and some of those races   
   > that were show in TOS and how we eithere dealt with them or made them   
   > our friends.    
   >    
   > As I said IMHO and I'm sure this will start a firestorm.   
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   >    
   >  -=>  Al Kaiser n1api@cox.net <=-   
   >    
   > Write soon Will!   
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   > Al Kaiser - Meriden, CT, 13-Sep-2013 at 18:32.   
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   > .!. The universe is simple - it's the explanation that's complex.   
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