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[QUOTE]Originally posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim: [QB] I would certainly not deny that there have been stupid plot devices and bad science in Trek before. I don't see that as being a defense for adding more to the mix, though. I might be equally critical of a multitude of other scenarios such as the ones you cite, but they are not what is in question in the context of this discussion. If anything, the new film ought to be held to a more rigorous standard than what has come before, considering its whole premise was designed to facilitate a fresh start. It is only my personal opinion, but if the goal was to retain the strongest aspects of Trek and discard the weakest, this film taken as a whole fell short of that goal. (And that doesn't mean I didn't enjoy much of it.) And as I said earlier in the thread, the point is not so much that there are no rationalizations that can be made to explain things like this as it is that good fiction should not create the need for them in the first place. Writers can obviously make up any farfetched thing they want, but that doesn't mean they should. I consider it their charge to make up something logical, believable, and compelling. Some parts of the new film lived up to this, and some didn't. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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