From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
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   Subject: Re: [NEWS] Orci to Direct Star Trek 13   
      
   In article <5377DE3C.23571.startrek@capcity2.synchro.net>, Jeff Gregory   
    wrote:   
   > >   
   > >  It's irrelevant what Orci does since Abrams has already destroyed the   
   > >  franchise with his two garbagised version movies peeing all over real   
   > >  "Star Trek".  :-(   
   >    
   > Tell us how you *really* feel :-)   
   >    
   > I can understand these sentiments to an extent. "Real" Trek to me is, and   
   > always will be TOS, but I was able to enjoy the new Star Trek films by   
   > accepting them based on their own merit. They are fun space romps but I would   
   > like to see more problem solving and diplomacy and less space battles.   
   > Hopefully Orci will bring that to the table. Not too surprising that he got   
   > the directing gig.   
      
   They may be "fun space romps", they may even be "good" films in their   
   own right, but those are just personal opinions on the quality, which   
   is irrelevant.   
      
   The actual fact is that they're marketed as "Star Trek" and are not   
   really part of that franchise at all, despite the silly "parallel   
   universe" nonsense excuse to try and make what is simply an obvious   
   reboot stupidly "fit" with what came before.   
      
   They tried the same silliness with the mess called "Enterprise" and in   
   the end had to resort to just making the whole thing a "dream" in the   
   holodeck.   :-\   
      
   If they want to make a new "space romp" franchise, then make a NEW   
   "space romp" franchise. Don't go butchering an old franchise and   
   moronically pretending you haven't by stupidly reusing the same name   
   for a very different product.   
      
   Next time you open you jar of Strawberry Jam, don't be surprised to   
   find that what's inside is really Ketchcup ... hey, they both red and   
   liquidy, and even taste good when used in the right way ... but they   
   are not the same product, despite the label still saying "Strawberry   
   Jam".  :-\   
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