On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, The Fool wrote: > STII is..Moby Dick.
LOL! I've read Moby Dick twice, sir, and STII is no Moby Dick. :-) It quotes Moby Dick, true. "Plot by Ian Fleming, with additional dialogue by Dickens and Melville." > What killed it was that it was never edited. I was speaking of the original TV series, theorizing that ratings were hurt in part by a lack of continuous human drama from week to week to attract the non-SF viewer. (A lack of strong studio backing didn't exactly help, either.) The first cut was the cut > that played in theaters. Those really long sequences of special effects, > and nothing else. Granted TMP had the best special effects of any of the > movies up to ST6 ($100m in 1980 dollars worth). Tastes will vary, I suppose. The long effects sequeneces with brief reaction shots are better, for my money, than filling the script with endless mounds of babbling Treknology-speak in the manner of the ST:TNG and the spin-offs that followed. Mainly because the effects sequences are *good* and the music is *good* and a story is told thereby. Opera. Marvin Long Austin, Texas Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Poindexter & Ashcroft, LLP (Formerly the USA) http://www.breakyourchains.org/john_poindexter.htm _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
