[Randallw]

I think I learned that 3 or 4 months ago. What makes less sense to me is that the teaser has engineers welding the Enterprise together. It's like in the future people evolved beyond the necessity of actually needing to breathe. In the TNG you couldn't go beyond a handful of episodes without having to make repairs while in space. Bit hard to weld in sapce I think.

For me TOS has only one admirable quality. It created ST so we could have it these days. I find it on the rare occasion I've ever seen an episode to be old, cheap and over acted. I read a page about tv plots yesterday and it had the subject of the crew of a show have to go somewhere and find out what happened to the ship sent before them. There was something like 20 epsiodes of TOS that used the same plot. I hear there are something like 8 epsiodes that involve an arena fight as the main plot, and don't get me started on the epsiode where they find a planet with a fight between Yangs and Congs and discover the sacred holy document is that US declaration thing. ok I'll admit it's an american show, fair enough, but I'm surprised it does as well interantionally with it's US bias, what with the whole point being humanity has overcome nationalism and division. At it's worst extent you get movies like National Treasure. Nice movie the first time I saw it, if irritating, but I couldn't bear to sit through it all a second time.