Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pixadv.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!hao!seismo!harvard!wjh12!pixel!pixadv!cmm From: cmm@pixadv.UUCP Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: General ST Comments (probably not a spoiler, if anyone cares now) Message-ID: <20@pixadv.UUCP> Date: Thu, 5-Jul-84 12:06:20 EDT Article-I.D.: pixadv.20 Posted: Thu Jul 5 12:06:20 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 8-Jul-84 00:17:31 EDT Distribution: net.startrek,usa Organization: Pixel Computer Inc., Wilmington, Mass. Lines: 46 I have been watching the corespondance over the net for a few weeks now, and feel a desire to put my cent and a half forward. 1) StarTrek is a story about a small network of friends working with the universe and each other. It is not a story about the technology, it is about the people, and the "nobility" and "good causes" people can represent. StarTrek is a fable, with a moral, and is prey to all the self-rightous depths "moral media" can sink to. The people in StarTrek (many who almost seem like friends after all these years), are just people. 2) I think destroying the Enterprise was an acceptable idea. The maintainance of the Enterprise as the best/fastest/ most exciting ship in the fleet requires that a new model be created. The Enterprise is old, and must be replaced with the new technology. I think that there wasn't enough emotion when it was destroyed, (there was more emotion when the PDP-1x was powered down), but that can be fixed in later movies. After all, there was a certain amount of tension happening at the moment when Enterprise was destroyed, and they were concerned about *themselves* more than the ship. 3) StarTrek, although set in the future, MUST deal with problems of today to be relevant to the audience. A Federation-Klingon war could be the setting for a very powerful anti-war message. I would prefer not to see too much blood, but I think a good director could make a blood-less statement. 4) StarTrek fans are not a vocal as they were because they have gotten older, with many more things to distract them from their fantasy interests. I would say from the volume of traffic on this sub-net, that StarTrek fans are still very much in evidence. It is hard to maintain full enthusiasm when you can only get a StarTrek fix every couple of years. 5) To summarize, I very much have enjoyed all three of the StarTrek movies, and expect to enjoy the next "n" (may n be large!). I did think that ST:tSFS was too short, and that it left most of the story untold, but that will undoubtably be the purpose of the next set of sequels. -- ____________________________________________________________________________ cmm (carl m mikkelsen) | (617)657-8720x2310 Pixel Computer Incorporated | 260 Fordham Road | {allegra|ihnp4|cbosgd|ima|genrad|amd|harvard}\ Wilmington, Ma. 01887 | !wjh12!pixel!pixadv!cmm