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


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