Star Trek

< A> Might go see it on thursday
< B> saw a short trailer/teaser thing on TV
     and it was basically just more Kirk
     acting like a juvenile delinquent
< A> Well, they got that characterisation
     right then
< B> I dunno, Kirk always seemed pretty
     levelheaded to me
< A> I never got that impression from him at
     all
< A> being all gung ho and womanizing
< B> he was a military guy who liked his
     women, but I didn't see him going around
     picking fights if he could avoid them
< B> I'm just not sure how a James Dean
     character suddenly turns out to be a
     starship captain
< A> I do admit my perception maybe skewed
     cause most of TOS consisted of Kirk
     punching his problems as opposed to TNG
     where they technobabbled them away
< B> "oh awesome, here's some dude with issues
     riding a motorcycle and picking bar
     fights. yo. wanna captain our new top of
     the line science/warship?" - starfleet
< A> It was a more barbaric time
< B> "we considered a couple of astronauts,
     couple scientists, couple naval officers
     ... they just weren't cool enough. this
     is a cool people ship."