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Star Trek: Pick A Plot

Posted by chrisd on from the we're-still-gonna-line-up-for-em dept.

Vinnie_333 writes "This article on the New York Times sounds out on the often repetitive plots of the 10 Star Trek films to date (this include ST: Nemesis, coming soon). It refers to the film franchise as '10 films with 5 plots' and lays them all out in front of you. This does have a ring of truth. As a fan of Sci Fi (but not particularly Star Truck), I have to admit that there are only so many unique plots out there, and most of them have been well used by HG Well's time. Star Trek is, after all, a genre franchise and the story lines are held back by certain restrictions of the genre." I personally would pay Berman/Braga et al $20 if they never have a holodeck or time-travel-based plot ever again.

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  1. Damn NYT articles... by PunchMonkey · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    +5 karma to the first guy who posts a link to one of those anonymous nytimes generator sites

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    I'll have something intelligent to add one of these days...
  2. Maybe not by charon_on_acheron · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I got flamed/modded down a while ago for voicing severe dissatifaction with the Wesley character. My exact argument was along the line of:

    Every episode I saw had that gay kid inventing some new contraption that used purely experimental or hypothetical physics to save everyone's ass.

    Some people took extreme offense at that. I also never cared for the Next Generation series anyhow, so I only saw a few shows. But each one was the same ending.

    And now I know Wil Wheaton (ala imdb.com), the actor who played Wesley, is a /. reader, so some here are friends with him, and were offended for him. I don't think he ever replied, discretion being the better part of valor and all. As far as the 'gay' reference, watching the few episodes just reminded me of seeing Who's the Boss in the '80s, and you could tell that the actor who played Jonathon was gay. Don't know if Mr. Wheaton is gay, but it sure seemed that way in the show. That wasn't why I hated the series, but refering to it sure pissed off a lot of people. I just thought the show was terrible, and the original was much better.

    So while I didn't like Wesley Crusher because the show used him as a crutch, I loved Jar Jar Binks. He is just so stupidly annoying, how can you not like him? And with C-3PO's scenes being limited, they needed someone that could fill in as the stupidly annoying character.