Jon wrote: > >Yet a bad Star Trek episode can get me really annoyed ;) If a writer wasn't >aware of 2001 technology in the 1950's and '60's, it's fine -- no one expects >them to be psychic, after all. But a modern-day writer that can't get their >facts straight (in modern-day parlance) I find it highly annoying. I'm >willing to give a writer the benefit of the doubt for creative license -- to >a point. But get basic facts or definitions wrong and the love affair is >over ;) > I'm much more annoyed by lack of self-consistence. I enjoy Star Trek _as_ alternate history, a world that suffered a World War around 1992, etc. But I hate when they can't agree on facts that are stated in one series and denied in another series.
Alberto Monteiro
