Gene Roddenberry and The Making Of Star Trek....

[Nebusj]

A fictionalized account of historical events is pretty much standard fare in filmmaking, and always has been. There's no way to tell someone's entire life story in two hours without fudging some facts, rearranging things, or adding events that didn't really happen, to keep the story moving.

I don't know if anybody's ever actually tried.

Would be a nice change!

That's all a lot of us in this thread are saying, I think.

Well, for one, to do that would require a movie as long as the person's life. Even if we skimmed out, like, where the person was asleep you're left with an excessively long affair.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

Sadly, the Quote function here sometimes malfunctions. In my attempt to quote the full message above, note that one of the nested quotes ("Based on a true story" makes people think "true story.") simply failed to show up in the edit window or in my post. Grrrr....

It's not so much malfunctioning as it is by design pruning nested quotes to limit the number of nodes in the nested-quote tree. This limits the size and complexity of quoted messages, one important feature of which is that it lessens the impact on the database table that stores all the posts on the board; if there were no such pruning, it would be too easy for users to create needlessly large messages, and nothing would stop the nesting of quotes going to any depth. vBulletin doesn't even allow nested quotes by default, so evidently TrekBBS has a configurable add-on installed that supports it, and the pruning behavior we see is a result of how it's configured.

When quoting somebody's post, posters need to refer back to the original to observe the impact of this pruning. Sometimes, I've been known to manually reinsert pruned posts to avoid this sort of confusion. It's extremely tedious, but it can be done by copying and pasting directly from the messages in question. If the system doesn't prune that out in the preview of the message you're working on, you're good. As an alternative to reinserting quotes, one can also refer to previous posts with hyperlinks, which is adequate a lot of the time.