Posted by Randy Barnett:
Amazing Tribute to Star Trek:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2005_05_15-2005_05_21.shtml#1116385233
By [1]James Lilek. This how it begins, but it is NOT how it ends:
One of the good things about the End of Trek: I�ll never have to
listen to the bitching of fans. The more I troll the message boards
and forums and Usenet groups, the more I�m convinced that the
entirety of Trek Fandom is made up of people devoted to proving the
inadequacies of the thing they supposedly love. Oh, that episode
was horrible. Worst season ever. That show wasn�t anything like the
wonderful perfect original series � remember that show where the
computer ran the entire planet? No, not the one where the planet
looked like the backlot for an Old West movie. No, not the one
where the planet was some sort of jungle with Caucasian Polynesians
who shoveled fruit into the mouth of a big computer-god. No, not
the one where the planet was actually an asteroid. Oh � wait, yeah,
that one. No � wait, the one where the planet was full of Indians,
and the computer saved them by pushing away an asteroid � a
different one than the one where McCoy was dying and fell in love
with the priestess, because it was turn to get some - and Kirk was
like a big war brave chief or something. Miramanee! Man, he knocked
some moccasins that one. Yes, the new Trek sucks, there�s nothing
like that Nazi planet episode � well, except for the Nazi planet
two-parter. (Which sucked!) There was nothing that had Q in it,
like in Next Gen, when he would take them all back to Robin Hood
times and it wasn�t even a holodeck because he used his Q powers.
For that matter, where were the holodeck stories on �Enterprise�?
Not one! Okay, in the last one, but you know what I mean. You want
to talk Trek, you talk Next Generation, and that means Whoopi
Goldberg in a cardboard hat and a warship with a daycare center.
Complaints and trekkier-than-thou nitpickery. Ye canna change the
laws of fandom.
References
1. http://www.lileks.com/bleats/archive/05/0505/051605.html
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