Re: Abrams Talks About Trek XI Movie

"ToolPackinMama" <philnblanc@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
> I say that The Original Star Trek ~was~ an action/adventure show.

It was certainly sold to the network as one, and it
certainly had action/adventure episodes.  But if
its producers intended it to be one, then by the
standards of the period they didn't do a very
good job of delivering it as one.  More action
every week, such as gratuitous fistfights and
phaser shootouts and having Shatner clinging
to the hoods of runaway shuttlecraft, probably
would have helped its ratings at the time.  But it
would probably have been at the expense of
its more thoughtful aspects, and turned it into
another run-of-the-mill bang-bang-shoot-em-up
action/adventure series that nobody would be
watching today, except perhaps on TV Land at
three in the morning.

GeneK