From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
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   Subject: Re: Kirk and Spock in the news, again (link)   
      
   In article <539bf9f5$0$2866$e4fe514c@news2.news.xs4all.nl>, 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-   
   > >>>> wars-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. :-)   
      
   Improvements to the film-making technology ... not necessarily the   
   movies themselves.   
      
      
      
   > 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....   
      
   They were always aimed at kids - roughly 13 year old boys. George Lucas   
   said he wanted to make movies (both Star Wars and Indiana Jones) that   
   were like the ones he saw in cineams *when he was a kid*.   
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