What's keeping me out of Warped9's Frontier ...

[Shatmandu]

Hiya, folks.

Our resident purist seems like a nice chap, but I prefer the opinions of someone more flexible, even in a negative way.

For example: If a TOS episode is referenced in some way by an episode of Enterprise, I want to know about it, even if the reference is deemed stupid.

Will I be able to get that at Warped9's site?

Joe, puristy

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Hiya, folks.

Our resident purist seems like a nice chap, but I prefer the opinions of someone more flexible, even in a negative way.

For example: If a TOS episode is referenced in some way by an episode of Enterprise, I want to know about it, even if the reference is deemed stupid.

Will I be able to get that at Warped9's site?

Joe, puristy

People have an absolute right to lavish their attention only on what they're enthusiastic about.

Consider how much more positive a behavior that is than people starting up stupid online projects to protest something they personally don't like in a movie or TV show - something like that "craignotbond" site that appeared and then foundered a couple of years ago. "Better to light a single candle..." etc. etc.

The kind of thing that throws me for a bit of a loop is not someone launching a site explicitly devoted to a single or limited aspect of something like Trek - there are quite a lot of sites that specialize - but the kind of weirdness going on with Bernd and ex-astris-scientia right now.

I've always found that place valuable as a reference site in addition to a Trek art site, but as of the moment Bernd has decided - even as he includes Trek XI on the site - to arbitrarily declare stuff like that the Enterprise in Abrams' movie is much smaller than it in fact is (in the context of the movie). This is just nonsense - basically because he's found a Trek factoid he really dislikes, he's invalidating it in favor of his personal preferences while maintaining the fiction that he's running a reference site.

Okay, given a choice between that and running his site devoted only to what he likes - as Warped9 is making clear that he intends to do - don't you think it's a lot more sensible and respectable to do what Warped9 is doing?

 

[Shatmandu]

Okay, given a choice between that and running his site devoted only to what he likes - as Warped9 is making clear that he intends to do - don't you think it's a lot more sensible and respectable to do what Warped9 is doing?

Not really. It sounds uninteresting, like a Christmas letter.

Joe, who uses those to light the fireplace

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

One of the beauties of the Internet is the viability of sites devoted to niche interests, which is to say that I don't have to find something personally interesting to posit that it serves a purpose for other people.

 

[Brutal Strudel]

Hiya, folks.

Our resident purist seems like a nice chap, but I prefer the opinions of someone more flexible, even in a negative way.

For example: If a TOS episode is referenced in some way by an episode of Enterprise, I want to know about it, even if the reference is deemed stupid.

Will I be able to get that at Warped9's site?

Joe, puristy

People have an absolute right to lavish their attention only on what they're enthusiastic about.

Consider how much more positive a behavior that is than people starting up stupid online projects to protest something they personally don't like in a movie or TV show - something like that "craignotbond" site that appeared and then foundered a couple of years ago. "Better to light a single candle..." etc. etc.

The kind of thing that throws me for a bit of a loop is not someone launching a site explicitly devoted to a single or limited aspect of something like Trek - there are quite a lot of sites that specialize - but the kind of weirdness going on with Bernd and ex-astris-scientia right now.

I've always found that place valuable as a reference site in addition to a Trek art site, but as of the moment Bernd has decided - even as he includes Trek XI on the site - to arbitrarily declare stuff like that the Enterprise in Abrams' movie is much smaller than it in fact is (in the context of the movie). This is just nonsense - basically because he's found a Trek factoid he really dislikes, he's invalidating it in favor of his personal preferences while maintaining the fiction that he's running a reference site.

Okay, given a choice between that and running his site devoted only to what he likes - as Warped9 is making clear that he intends to do - don't you think it's a lot more sensible and respectable to do what Warped9 is doing?

As you would say, QFT.

 

[Shatmandu]

One of the beauties of the Internet is the viability of sites devoted to niche interests, which is to say that I don't have to find something personally interesting to posit that it serves a purpose for other people.

Christmas form letters serve a purpose.

I feel good about deciding that his page, from just a glimpse and a notion, is misguided. I learned from the best.

Joe, prejudger

 

[Lord Garth]

This is ridiculous.

At least when Warped9 is voicing his opinion, he sticks to the subject at hand. He's talking about why he's not interested in Star Trek XI or, in a tangent, he's talking about Frontier.

What he's not doing is starting threads aimed squarely at baiting an individual poster the way you are.

Our resident purist seems like a nice chap, but I prefer the opinions of someone more flexible, even in a negative way.

Maybe you do, but this board was intended for all opinions. He's not attacking anyone or ridiculing them, using the ad hominem fallacy in other words, so why are you?

 

[T'Bonz]

What the fuck is this? Joe, you know better.

TOS is for discussion of the show, not posters.