From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: dxmm{at}albury.nospam.net.au
Subject: Re: Enterprise Was The Best. Trek. Ever.

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

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