From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: epwise{at}yahoo.com
Subject: Re: Pike: the new Cage?

anim8rFSK  wrote in
news:anim8rfsk-47CFE5.14245016042014{at}news.easynews.com: 

> In article ,
>  "Steven L."  wrote:
> 
>> On 4/15/2014 11:13 AM, anim8rFSK wrote:
>> > In article ,
>> >   Wiseguy  wrote:
>> >
>> >> "Will Dockery"  wrote in
>> >> news:lij3vu$bt6$1{at}dont-email.me:
>> >>
>> >>> Rewatching Star Trek Into Darkness, Pike's death, Spock's mind
>> >>> meld with him as he dies, the use of Khan's blood to revive
>> >>> Kirk... clearly there is an opening for a remake of The
>> >>> Menagerie/Cage. 
>> >>>
>> >>> Anyone else seeing this?
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >> I thought the whole point of the time-travel reboot of Star Trek
>> >> was that they wouldn't have to remake the original plotlines.
>> >> So far, that seems to be all they are doing.
>> >
>> > badly
>> 
>> Well, that's how TNG started out too. (Remember "The Naked Now?") 
>> TNG didn't really come into its own till after the first season.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -- Steven L.
> 
> TOS hit it's stride with it's first production episode, THE CORBOMITE 
> MANEUVER, and it's first season is probably on average it's best.  Why
> should Abrams, with the benefit of 50 years of hindsight, get a pass
> for remaking classics as crap?
> 

I thought "Where No Man Has Gone Before" was good also.  Much better 
than the actual premiere "The Man Trap."
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