Steven L. wrote:
> Wiseguy wrote:
>> "Steven L."
earthlink.net> wrote in news:ZYydndT-P-
>> c6wjrVnZ2dnUVZ_rXinZ2d@earthlink.com:
>>>>> I was looking at the IMDB (
www.imdb.com) entry for Trek XI:
>>>
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0796366/
>>>
>>> and I noticed that two of the parts are for "Vulcan Bully #1" and
>>> "Vulcan Bully #2," to be played by a couple of child actors.
>>>
>>> In TAS "Yesteryear," there was a scene that showed young boy Spock
>>> being bullied by his Vulcan classmates for being only half-Vulcan. (That
>>> was alluded to in Amanda's speech to Spock in TOS "Journey to
>>> Babel.") I'm wondering if Abrams put that same scene into Trek XI, in
>>> live
>>> action this time.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Perhaps more people would consider TAS as canon, as it should be.
After seeing TAS I think it should be.
>
> "Yesteryear" *was* officially made canon by Okuda. It's the only TAS
> episode to be "canonized."
Well, at least 'parts of' were canonized.
>
> As a result, other elements of that episode have appeared in
> subsequent Trek productions. In fact, in the "remastered" TOS
> episode "Amok Time," the scenes of Vulcan were altered to be
> consistent with what was shown in "Yesteryear."
>
> If I'm right, however, this scene in Trek XI would be a duplicate
> (ripoff?) of the same scene from "Yesteryear," only performed in live
> action this time.
>
>
http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Image:Vulcan_youths.jpg
Could be.
I would see nothing wrong with that.
Vulcan children aren't born without emotions and through adulthood only a
few manage to achieve to be relatively free of them. And some /really/ need
to work on it (Stonn). Others seem to be as cold as ice (T'Pring).
