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   Daibhid Ceanaideach to All   
   Re: New American series   
   07 Oct 12 16:53:42   
   
   From Newsgroup: rec.arts.drwho.moderated   
   From Address: daibhidchenedelh@aol.com   
   Subject: Re: New American series   
      
   On 07 Oct 2012, Daibhid Ceanaideach  wrote:   
      
   >> if that chance was virtually zero beforehand. It also makes a   
   >> confused mess of the franchise as a whole since nobody knows which   
   >> version you're talking about when you say "Star Trek" - the proper   
   >> one, Beavis & Butthead's silly Enterprise, or JJ Abram's inconsistent   
   >> "new Star Trek".    
   >    
   > Wait, why isn't Enterprise proper Trek? It *is* meant to be in the   
   > same continuity as the original! (It's a total continuity mess, sure,   
   > but how much Doctor Who would survive that argument? Probably only one   
   > Gallifrey story, for a start.)   
      
   Point withdrawn, since I've just noticed that I already invited the    
   interpretation of "it's not 'proper X' if it didn't work, even if it's    
   meant to be in continuity" with my dismissal of Galactica 1980...   
      
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