Subj : Re: Pike: the new Cage? To : All From : Wiseguy Date : Thu Apr 17 2014 01:54:23 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos From Address: epwise@yahoo.com Subject: Re: Pike: the new Cage? anim8rFSK wrote in news:anim8rfsk-47CFE5.14245016042014@news.easynews.com: > In article , > "Steven L." wrote: > >> On 4/15/2014 11:13 AM, anim8rFSK wrote: >> > In article , >> > Wiseguy wrote: >> > >> >> "Will Dockery" wrote in >> >> news:lij3vu$bt6$1@dont-email.me: >> >> >> >>> Rewatching Star Trek Into Darkness, Pike's death, Spock's mind >> >>> meld with him as he dies, the use of Khan's blood to revive >> >>> Kirk... clearly there is an opening for a remake of The >> >>> Menagerie/Cage. >> >>> >> >>> Anyone else seeing this? >> >>> >> >>> >> >> >> >> I thought the whole point of the time-travel reboot of Star Trek >> >> was that they wouldn't have to remake the original plotlines. >> >> So far, that seems to be all they are doing. >> > >> > badly >> >> Well, that's how TNG started out too. (Remember "The Naked Now?") >> TNG didn't really come into its own till after the first season. >> >> >> >> -- Steven L. > > TOS hit it's stride with it's first production episode, THE CORBOMITE > MANEUVER, and it's first season is probably on average it's best. Why > should Abrams, with the benefit of 50 years of hindsight, get a pass > for remaking classics as crap? > I thought "Where No Man Has Gone Before" was good also. Much better than the actual premiere "The Man Trap." --- Synchronet 3.15a-Linux NewsLink 1.92-mlp * Origin: TeraNews.com (1:2320/105.97) --- SBBSecho 2.12-Linux * Origin: telnet & http://cco.ath.cx - Dial-Up: 502-875-8938 (1:2320/105.1) .