From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: will.dockery{at}gmail.com
Subject: Re: Star Trek Into Darkness

On Wednesday, August 14, 2013 9:53:48 AM UTC-4, Al Kaiser wrote:
> To: Will Dockery
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> Will Dockery wrote to All Subject: Star Trek Into Darkness
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>  WD> Just saw Star Trek Into Darkness and mulling it... have some
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>  WD> clues to where it may go next... or some possible ideas
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>  WD> Will ST #3 be "The Menagerie" perhaps?
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> They need to come up with new stories and not rehash the old themes.  I don't
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> want to see more "Q" and "Borg" themes.  Let's
start to explore and "Go Where
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> No Man Has Gone Before" rather than rewrite all the old stories.  They also
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> have to get away from the Uhura / Spock romance too.  It was a bad idea
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> totally out of character for Spock.  Time to see the other characters beside
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> Kirk and Spock develop.  The little "imp" that follows
Scotty around needs to
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> go to.
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> They really got off on the wrong foot and I don't know now if two movies into
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> the "new Trek" they can right the ship and get back on
course.  Perhaps the
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> next movie could show that this was a parallel universe and close that opening
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> then they can get back to being the characters, (but not the old rehashed
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> stories), the we all loved and grew up with.
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> I accept them as the characters, they did a good job casting them, in fact in
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> the second movie in some of the shots of Chris Pine I was saying to myself he
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> could have been a young Shatner.  They looked like brothers even twins.  But
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> they did a poor job with the story lines they wrote and now it may be too
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> late to close that book.  If so then the next movie may be the last.

Well, the "Space Seed" story sure was different, although I think
I'd have enjoyed the film better if the name Khan had been left out.

I see plenty of ways for Admiral Pike to be brought back... just a shot of
Khan blood and anyone can live again, right?
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