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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Treknophyle: [QB] Me, I'm a 40-year-old Trekkie. I watch ed the original TOS on a black and white set. I wrote some manuals back in the 80's partly to explain/correct perceived continuity problems - so I guess one could say I have a love of continuity. And until today, I never realized that in the Voyager episode in contemporary time California, there should have been nuclear devastation and mutants. I missed it completely - because I was interested in the story. Is that possible? It is for me. How about you crobato? I love Star Trek. I think it peaked in 1967 insofar as writing goes. But I still enjoy its later avatars. I also: - Have a life - Do not live in my parent's basement - Kiss girls I think the ability to enjoy a show without getting kinked about minor discrepencies has some correlation with the above 3 qualities (which I refer to as Shatner's 3 Laws of Idiotics). Or, put more succinctly: Get a Life. Peregrinus/JeffK - rock on. I have faith that (should the writing in the new series be up to snuff)- you two will enjoy the series. Y'know, like judge it on its own merits. PS: While I do agree with crobato insofar that Sci-Fi is (usually) a measure of how technology affects society - I believe a better definition would be how "as-yet unlikely but possible or probable events" will affect society. You see crobato, one of the finest sci-fi movies ever made was "Soylent Green" - which did not center on any new technology - but on a rather distateful (no pun intended), and unlikey - yet possible event could change it. And yes, you are certainly correct in that consistency in TECHNOLOGY is what seps fantasy from sci-fi. Larry Niven touched on this. If I can make my enemy vanish in a puff of smoke sans visible weaponry, I may be using technology (ray gun), or psi-powers - but so long as I have the same ability in next weeks episode - and it obeys INTERNALLY self-consistent laws, it is not magic. However, Every sci-fi novel and television series has had its continuity flaws. To alter something you said - what matters is intent - not written rules. If they have to bend continuity in order to make the story more interesting - I can see it. And it provides grist for the mill. Think of all the work the nit-pickers will have, as they try to solve each paradox! [/QB][/QUOTE]
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