Re: Paramount Agrees To Two More Trek Movies

"Anybody" <anybody@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> In article <47a5e5f1$0$8416$db0fefd9@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, "Jaxtraw"
> <jax@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > Snake wrote:
> > > "Jaxtraw" <jax@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> > > news:47a4ed93$0$8422$db0fefd9@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >> 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.
>
> Except it isn't "reasonable" in any way. By "wiping the slate clean"
> you've killed off "Star Trek" as we know it and created a brand new
> franchise ("JJ Abrams Star Trek"), in which case they should simply do
> the sensible and decent thing by giving it a new name too, otherwise
> it's "Star Trek" in name only ... and no true fan wants such garbage.

Great, now Anybody has elevated himself to speak for "All True Fans."
Did I miss the vote?

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