On Jul 18, 10:08 pm, "80 Knight"
please.com> wrote:>> On Jul 18, 1:15 pm, "Kweeg" wrote:
>>> "Brenda" wrote in message
>
>
>>>>>> 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 remained.
>
> But how is re-imaging TOS going to hurt you? You can still watch TOS on TV,
> and in DVD form, you can still buy books, games, poster's, and everything
> else. Choose not to watch the new movie if you are so against it, but let
> others give it a chance.
I don't plan on it. But I have an opinion, and voice it. I'm not
holding a gun on anyone and telling them not to go.
