From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: liam@valentijn.nu   
   Subject: Re: Kirk and Spock in the news, again (link)   
      
   Daniel schreef op 14-6-2014 13:59:   
   > On 14/06/14 17:29, Wouter Valentijn wrote:   
   >> Your Name schreef op 14-6-2014 00:05:   
   >>> In article <539af9f9$0$2964$e4fe514c@news2.news.xs4all.nl>, Wouter   
   >>> Valentijn  wrote:   
   >>>> Your Name schreef op 13-6-2014 08:12:   
   >>>>> In article , ToolPackinMama   
   >>>>>  wrote:   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> http://www.cnet.com/news/americans-think-star-trek-is-the   
   future-not-star-w   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> ars-study-says/   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Well, DUH!   
   >>>>> Star Wars is set "a long time ago in a galaxy far far away".   
   >>>>> Star Trek is set in Earth's near-ish future.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> ROFL   
   >>>>   
   >>>> I'd take Star Trek over Star Wars any day.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Not that I'm totally anti Star Wars. I liked Star Wars (IV) and TESB   
   >>>> very much. ROTJ was a lesser movie and the prequels... Never mind them.   
   >>>   
   >>> The only real issue with Star Wars is that there was such a long time   
   >>> between the trilogies, meaning they look quite different due to   
   >>> technology improvements, differeing style, over-the-top fight scenes,   
   >>> etc. Many of the later additions to the Original Trilogy look out of   
   >>> place with the older film quality / style. If all six (and soon a   
   >>> ridiculously tacked-on third Trilogy) had been made continuously like   
   >>> "Harry Potter", for example, then those differences would have been   
   >>> much less noticeable.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> "Improvements"... Not a word I'd use. :-)   
   >> Nah, I think the stories themselves took a nose dive. They became more   
   >> 'kiddiefied'.   
   >> I'd keep 'Star Wars' and "The Empire Stikes Back', but the rest....   
   >>   
   > Seems to me, George Lucas, originally, made the discussion to produce   
   > Star Wars (i.e. chapter 4 in his original nine part storyline), whoever   
   > was able to convince him, much, much later, that parts one through three   
   > were worthwhile .... THAT PERSON SHOULD HAVE BEEN TAKEN OUT THE BACK AND   
   > SHOT!!   
   >   
   > If they went anywhere, after 4, 5 and 6, it should have been 7 then!!   
   >   
      
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