On Jul 18, 1:15 pm, "Kweeg" wrote:
>>>> Kweeg, I gotta somewhat disagree with you on this. Seeing the care TPTB
>>>> have NOT taken
>>>> in the past with trek canon, I'm not hopeful. It seems to me the current
>>>> management wants
>>>> to write new scifi but give it the trek name so it'll pull in the fans.
>>>> Yes, season 4 of ENT
>>>> rocked and perhaps the series might have succeeded had Coto been on
>>>> board from the get go,
>>>> but he wasn't.
>
>>>> I'm skeptical. I fear this will simply be another enterprise debacle.
>
>>> .. like Roddenberry believing everything people were saying about him and
>>> screwing up Trek canon with his "New Trek" TNG. Season 1 & 2, now those
>>> are painful to watch.
>>> Don't confuse canon with FANon. {{;-/>
>>> Point is Brenda when there is someone who cares and understands what
>>> makes it "Trek" (like Coto / Moore / Bennet) we usually get good Trek.
>>> While not a big of fan as Coto is, I hold out some hope JJ will do it
>>> justice, and I will not condemn it *before* I've even seen it.
>
>> Kweeg, you should know me better. I'm a fan, not a fangirl. I'm not
>> confusing canon with fandom.
>> When something is presented on screen and then the new powers that be
>> choose to completely IGNORE
>> that history they ignore canon..better thought of as continuity. Voicing
>> skepticism isn't condemning. It's
>> being skeptical.
>
> Of course the worst offender for "canon violations" was TOS.
>
> --
>
> Qapla'
> Kweeg
> Ten of Canadian Clubs in the Eeeevil Trek Cabal
> "Half a gallon a'scotch!" Scotty (Spectre of the Gun)
> 1,079,252,848.8 km/h, not just a good idea, it's the law.
> "So say we all!"
All canon violations aside (which was more the cause of inconsistent
writing than blatant 'rebooting'), TOS was still and is still hugely
popular as it is. It doesn't need reimagined.
