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CBS/Paramount sues to stop Axanar

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bonesmccoy2014 said:
There are people who would like to view Star Trek properties and branding as a source of family-friendly and child-friendly entertainment. I understand that you object and that your associated film makers also have previously successfully filmed and produced David Gerrold's "Blood and Fire" scripts under New Voyages.
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And Star Trek has never been "family friendly" or "child friendly". How many times have we watched characters get tortured or turned into flaming human torches in the last fifty years? A LOT!
 
BillJ said:
And Star Trek has never been "family friendly" or "child friendly". How many times have we watched characters get tortured or turned into flaming human torches in the last fifty years? A LOT!
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That's actually family friendly to 'some' families ;)
 
Jody Wheeler said:
Oh, wait. This is homophobia, isn't it?
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Going off topic a bit here, but no for me it's not. I couldn't care less what the LGBT community does. I don't even really care if it's in fan-fiction or even officially approved books. I don't mind it in for-mature-audience TV shows like CSI or Criminal Minds. But I really don't want to see that agenda pushed into Star Trek, or Star Wars, or Harry Potter, or Marvel's Avenger movies, or anything else that's supposed to be family-friendly / kid-friendly.
 
bonesmccoy2014 said:
There are people who would like to view Star Trek properties and branding as a source of family-friendly and child-friendly entertainment.
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I take it you've never really WATCHED the original Star Trek series (1966-1969) - which I bring up as relevant because the majority of fan films these days tell stories and use the characters and background of that era. I say that because if you had, you'd realize that version of Star Trek was never really intended as 'child-friendly' entertainment when it was produced. Even today I wouldn't consider TOS 'child-friendly' overall.
 
Sgt_G said:
But I really don't want to see that agenda pushed into Star Trek, or Star Wars, or Harry Potter, or Marvel's Avenger movies, or anything else that's supposed to be family-friendly / kid-friendly.
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Why? If it is genetic, there is a whole world of kids growing up wondering why they don't have a place in the world. And, as I have pointed to upthread, Star Trek was never family or kid friendly.
 
Sgt_G said:
Going off topic a bit here, but no for me it's not. I couldn't care less what the LGBT community does. I don't even really care if it's in fan-fiction or even officially approved books. I don't mind it in for-mature-audience TV shows like CSI or Criminal Minds. But I really don't want to see that agenda pushed into Star Trek, or Star Wars, or Harry Potter, or Marvel's Avenger movies, or anything else that's supposed to be family-friendly / kid-friendly.
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Fiction reflects reality. And the reality is that gay people are part of life. Previously officially excluded from much of that life, those sanctions have now fallen away. They're now including gay people in narratives, as they should. This includes "family" shows. After all, gay people are part of the family.
 
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Anyway, there was this CBS/Axanar thing...
 
BillJ said:
Star Trek was never family or kid friendly
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It was when I was seven/eight years old sitting cross-legged on the floor watching first-run episodes on our black-&-white TV set. If it wasn't, my mom would have yanked me up by my collar and sent me to my room.
 
Jody Wheeler said:
Fiction reflects reality. And the reality is that gay people are part of life. Previously officially excluded from much of that life, those sanctions have now fallen away. They're now including gay people in narratives, as they should. This includes "family" shows. After all, gay people are part of the family.
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On a side note, I'd rather my kids learn about the world early in life, that way they are prepared for it when they go out into the world and have an understanding of how they fit in the world.
 
Sgt_G said:
It was when I was seven/eight years old sitting cross-legged on the floor watching first-run episodes on our black-&-white TV set. If it wasn't, my mom would have yanked me up by my collar and sent me to my room.
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So you're telling me the near rape of Mara by Chekov in "Day of the Dove" was kid friendly?
 
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