geo (01/27/83)
I don't consider myself a trekkie, although I enjoyed watching the show when I was a kid, and enjoyed STII:twok. I considered many of the original shows silly and contrived and I probably won't go to see the third movie if they use some kind of contrived plot gimmick like re-incarnating Spock. I wonder if they considered doing anything like what was done with the old "Kung Fu" series? People really liked the Spock character throughout the series. He was probably more popular than Kirk. As I recall, at least on the net, the Saveek (sp?) character from STII:twok was quite popular. Saveek was Spock's protege, correct? Why not have Spock's scenes all be flashbacks to Saveek's earlier life? Do any of you remember the old Kung Fu series? It worked quite well there, particularly for the first half-dozen shows, while they still had some good scripts. =-------------------------- In a completely different vein, you say that Leonard Nimoy is going to direct the third movie. To my mind, that suggests it won't be a very good movie. There was a very cheaply produced series that I watched occasionally six or seven years ago, called "In Search of....". Leonard Nimoy was the narrator for it. Typically, each show searched for a different thing that went bump in the night, like ghosts, psychic surgeons, bermuda triangles, chariots of the gods, re-incarnation & etc. To me, this suggests that Leonard Nimoy is either a very credulous scientific illiterate, or an unprincipled money-grubber. Either way, I can't see him making a good science fiction movie... Cordially, Geo Swan, Integrated Studies, University of Waterloo