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:
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> Wiseguy wrote:
>> "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.
> 
> Don't get me wrong, Wiseguy, I'm all in favour of consistency .... 
even 
> if it is all make-believe in a make-believe world!!
> 
> Daniel
> 
> 

Of course, consistency is desired.
But in all TV and movie series there are inconsistencies, goofs, etc.
It's to be expected.
But only fanatics like Graeme get their panties in a twist over it. 
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