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:
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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.

"It's to be expected.". No, not to be expected, but I'll alloy
"accepted"!!

Daniel

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