From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: epwise{at}yahoo.com
Subject: Re: Enterprise Was The Best. Trek. Ever.

"Daniel47{at}teranews.com"  wrote in
news:H2Fqu.734390$i75.248403{at}fx03.iad: 

> Graeme wrote:
>> On Wednesday, December 11, 2013 6:45:04 AM UTC-6,
>> Dani...{at}teranews.com wrote: 
>>> "fictional reality and real." No, no such thing as fictional
>>> reality, 
>>>
>>> something is either fictional or real!!
>>>
>>> Daniel
>>
>> We went through this in the other thread, which you may not have
>> seen.  Stories  . have their own internal consistency. 
> 
> Yes, stories can be either True/Real/Factual or they can be Fiction
> 
> Fictional stories can be set in real places/times but they are still 
> fictional stories, no "if"'s, "but"'s or
"maybe"'s!!
> 
> All the Star Trek's are set in the future so they cannot be real.
> Earth may develop that way so that it might resemble the *fictional*
> Earth as shown in the Star Trek series', or it might get blown up by
> an astoried next year .... we don't because it hasn't happened yet ...
> if it ever happens!!
> 
> Sure, back in the '60's, Roddenbury wrote a *story* 
> /script/treatment/whatever about the Star Trek universe, but it is no 
> more real than the Earth of "Blade Runner", or that
"Batman's" Gotham 
> City is real or that "James Bond, 007", is out there somewhere keeping
> the world safe from nastiness (or should I have mentioned Maxwell
> Smart here??)!! Because they are *FICTIONAL* , not real in the
> slightest!! 
> 
> Daniel
> 

It's real to Graeme. It's his only world.
And every little fictional inconsistency disturbs him.
Because he is disturbed. 
He cannot understand that TOS had its own internal
inconsistencies. (Read the "Nitpicker" books by Phil Farrand.)
It's his tiny little perfect world and anybody who disagrees with him is 
automatically wrong and stupid.
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