Re: Paramount Agrees To Two More Trek Movies

Snake wrote:
> "Jaxtraw" <jax@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>> There isn't any "history" to "pee over", Anybody. It's fiction. It's
>> made up. It doesn't actualy exist. It's just a story. Really.
>
> True...but if Star Trek had no "history" then TNG, DS9, Voy, ENT
> **AND** all the movies - EVERY SINGLE ONE - would not exist.
>
> It IS the "history" that makes these constructs have the possibility
> of existing.

It's not history though, it's storytelling. A story may tell an imaginary
history, even to the complex level of The Lord Of The Rings, but it's
still
just a story. Its only measure of virtue is in its storytelling virtue. If
it fails in that, it has failed, period. Reboots are entirely reasonable
in
storytelling as they allow new stories to be told, when a "history" has
become so complex and complete that there is nothing interesting left to
be
done with it. We know too much about the Star Trek universe now for it to
retain interest for most people. Wiping the slate clean is a reasonable
way
to solve that problem, except for Anybody apparently.

I'm more worried that they're trying to restart and stick with the known
history. I'm intrigued by the question of what they're actually going to
do.
If this thing is going to try to mesh with all that has gone before, it's
not going to have much room to maneuver. I'm not much interested in seeing
a
slightly different slant on the same Trekiverse where we know everything
about Kirk including how he dies, when he becomes an admiral and all that
crap. If they're starting again, let's see a proper start again, with the
future a truly undiscovered country. We can still watch our old treasures
on
DVD.

I've asked Anybody repeatedly why he thinks that a restart is an insult to
fans, but he always just says the same thing; it is. Period. I presume
it's
this feeling "I've spent thousands of hours memorising the layout of the
waste disposal systems on the Enterprise and now all that time will be
wasted" or something. Well, it's just a story. All that matters about
stories is whether they're entertaining or not.


Ian

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