Re: Paramount Agrees To Two More Trek Movies

Kweeg wrote:
> "Anybody" <anybody@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> In article <47a5e5f1$0$8416$db0fefd9@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, "Jaxtraw"
>> <jax@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>> Snake wrote:
>>>> "Jaxtraw" <jax@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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.
>>
>> 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?

I think it's a bit like the Freemasons, you have to be proposed and then
take an oath in secret, or something. So I've heard.


Ian

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