From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: fakename{at}nomail.invalid
Subject: Re: Star Trek Into Darkness



Daniel47{at}teranews.com wrote:
> Bast wrote:
>> Daniel47{at}teranews.com wrote:
>>> Bast wrote:
>>>
>>> 
>>>> Sadly you are correct.
>>>> Like everything else nowadays, a well known product name, no longer
>>>> denotes any expected quality, just  more cheaply sweatshop-made
>>>> overpriced crap. But that's why after 40 years, I no longer claim to
>>>> be a "trekkie", as
>>>> the farther I distance myself from those newer movies, the better.
>>>> ...I even managed to hang on through the public humiliation of the
>>>> voyager and enterprise years,....but there ARE limits.
>>>
>>> and there you go, another difference!
>>>
>>> As "Bikie" tends to refer to the "hard
core", violent, people who ride
>>> motorcycles, and "Biker" tends to refer to the clean
cut person who
>>> rides a motorcycle, I tend to think of myself as a
"Treker", rather
>>> than a "Trekkie"!
>>>
>>> IMO, of course!
>>>
>>> Daniel
>>
>>
>>
>> Strangely enough I once thought the same thing.
>> Then was told by many Trek people that the "trekker,"
was the total
>> whacko's who actually decorated their homes to look like the bridge of
>> the enterprise.
>>
>> So from then I told people I was a trekkie.
>> Now after the abrams movies,....I publicly deny any knowlege of
>> anything Trek.
>> ...But privately still treasure my TOS original issue DVD's, and the
>> VHS set.
>
> Me, myself, I have TOS original issue DVD's, and the TOS Films on VHS
> tape and DVD (or, at least my neighbour has my film DVD's).
>
> Daniel



And the same argument "It's not trek" has been going on ever since they 
issued the "remastered" TOS Blu-rays.

I downloaded (for free) the remastered ones,...and kept copies, but it 
pisses me off when I watch the remastered stuff, and see the same "look what 
we did, just because we CAN" special effects changes to real TOS. As what 
Abrams is now doing to it.

I really wished they just "restored" TOS to bigger screen Blu Ray, and 
offered us a copy of the REAL TOS,....with a WHITE Enterprise, and Kirk 
wearing gold tunics.

Which seemed to be more than good enough for 30+ years. 


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