Re: Paramount Agrees To Two More Trek Movies

"Snake" <fluidSPAMstates_no+spam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Brian Thorn" <bthorn64@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> > That's far from the case. There are many factions of Trek fans and
> > they seem to be in great disagreement over the movie. There are the
> > fans who will boycot the movie if the font for NCC-1701 is different
> > on the nacelles. There are the fans who see this as a reboot and will
> > boycot it on general principles (no Trek being better than reboot
> > Trek, in their opinion) and then there are the fans who aren't opposed
> > to the movie, per se, but have gone totally apeshit because William
> > Shatner isn't in it as James T. Kirk (I'm looking at you, Anim!)
> >
> > I am very worried about this movie. The plot sounds incredibly
> > convoluted. It evidently takes place in at least seven different time
> > periods (young Spock, Kirk's birth, 10-ish Kirk, Spock on Pike's
> > Enterprise,  Kirk at the Academy, Kirk in command of the Enterprise,
> > Spock in the TNG era) yet is still only targeted at two hours, meaning
> > its going to be a blitz of short sequences that will likely be very
> > hard to follow if not written very, very well.
> >
> > In other words, Trek fan opinion is all over the map about this movie,
> > and it might be so hopelessly confusing to non-fans that the movie
> > will fail.
>
> Oh no, don't tell me they are playing around with timeline aspects
again...
> [puke].
>
> Didn't we just go through (multiple) years of this, bouncing from one
time
> to another, sometimes in the same episode, rewriting / revisiting what
we
> call "canon"?  :shudder:
>
> Please tell me this isn't true.  How are they supposed to make a
"reboot"
> movie that looks "modern", slots between ENT and TOS, yet still
acknowledges
> the fact that TNG looks and acts like TNG by including it in its own
> storyline?

Holly shite, maybe you should calm down and wait for it to come out and go
and see it. Stop hanging around here or something is gonna pop in that
head
of yours. It fiction for Kahless' sake.

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