Author intent of TMP was that it was separate.
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^ Grasping at straws. So-called "author intent" of was never explicitly an official, recognized part of the one ST film he had any influence over (whoops) and his go-nowhere thoughts on revisionist history were clearly ignored by those who knew the material better than he did (which happened more than a few times on TOS, go figure).
No. You can't state intent then state that intent doesn't count. That's a double standard.
It's clear there's no interest in actually having a discussion or any effort at understanding a different point of view but just being right. As usual, I see Trek fans insisting only one way must be treated as gospel. More's the pity
I stand by my opinion that the characters in TOS feel different than their film counterparts, and the refit Enterprise doesn't fit as an update to the TOS ship. It's too different for me, as different as Blake's in MASH.
May you find your own way as pleasant.
My argument is air tight as long as I ignore everything that contradicts it.
That's literally what the writers are doing when they sit down to break the stories of each season.
What if Star Trek is real and we are fiction? A holographic reaction of a fake past were the real world was just a tv show people in our century enjoyed watching. Holographic Meta fiction!
Or a web series becoming more and more meta.
Or maybe humans created a holographic Star Trek program were the programs became alive because of AI which they then created a holographic past where their reality was a tv show, like mentioned. Now that we are alive we will someday create our own AI Star Trek meta universe and the cycle will continue on and on. We're just a program built by a program built by the real humans.
Oh, the brain in a vat theory.*
*2000 Internet points for those catching the reference.
Colonel Blake in the MASH movie is not the same guy as Colonel Blake from the TV show.
Thank you for stating my point.
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Close but not quite.
Thank you for stating my point.
I’m confused. You were making a point that the same characters didn’t act alike in different productions by using an example of a character who literally wasn’t the same person from a different production?
TOS Kirk - same guy as TMP Kirk
MASH movie Blake - not the same guy as MASH TV show Blake (and not even the same actor)
I don't feel they are the same.
Well if it makes you feel better, I don’t think the SNW characters are the same people as the TOS characters.
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