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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Sol System: [QB] That's sort of an odd choice. Any particular reason that character came to mind? (Though: Trelane had pretty obviously never actually met humans in person prior to "Squire of Gothos," to be a huge nerd about it.) I've been thinking about that particular passage, and I think that's probably exactly the wrong direction for Enterprise to go. If I want to watch TOS I can buy it. If I want to do nothing with my TV drama time other than wallow in nostalgia I can watch TV Land. I mean, would this work for any other show? "On our new Law & Order, Special Investigators of Wire Fraud, we're going to go back and capture what made Dragnet so successful?" I guess the sad answer is yes, since they remade Dragnet. And it failed miserably. (Actually, I guess it got a whole season and maybe a little extra, which is not too bad these days. Hmm.) But, what I am getting at is this, I think: You can't go partially retro in a science fiction show. Either it's an attempt to look at the present via the conceit of the future, or it isn't. And Star Trek, despite presenting a future thought up back when the microprocessor was still a gleam in Marcian Hoff's eye, has never been intentionally retro. Basically, I read that as an attempt to get back into the "mainstream," which is just a laughable goal, because it hardly exists anymore. Paramount, I suspect, is, like any organization, expert at doing what worked twenty years ago, and less skilled at doing what works today, or will tomorrow. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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