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From: jpm@ptsfc.UUCP (Jim Moore)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Why Bother?
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Date: Fri, 19-Oct-84 17:35:21 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 19 17:35:21 1984
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> Why do so many people rehash, relive, and rethink such an old TV series?

I have put away my phaser (locked in a build up to overload!!) ...

> Perhaps this is an absurd question, but why DO we bother?

The question is certainly not absurd.  We can (and probably do) ask the
same thing about funerals, birthday parties and Christmas.

The answer, or at least my answer, is just as simple... and just as complex.
I need this kind of thing.  I escape with Star Trek.  I have fun with the
crew of the Enterprise - and think some serious thoughts with them as well.
The stories would try to make a point that related to our every day life,
but from a very different viewpoint.  Does the A-Team do that? Or even
Hill Street?  And the crew mostly stuck together...there was loyalty,
friendship, and love.  Sure there were moments of distaste and even hate
("Mind your own business Mr. Spock.  I'm sick of your half breed interference,
do you hear?), but what family doesn't grow and develop from its weaknesses
as well as its strengths?  These characters were a family, ARE a family, and
we all can share their experiences on the Big Screen thanks to people like
us who keep what they gave us "alive".

I am a "Trekkie" - and if that means I have an avid interest in the history 
and future of the series called "Star Trek", so be it.

Enough. (NOT *enuff*!!)


     Jim Moore
     ptsfa!ptsfc!jpm
     Pacific Bell

REMEMBER - "Things are only as bad as they are
            and can only get worse if they do!"