"Geordi? Inquiry...why do humans require so much available space in which to contain their...I believe the word is...'stuff'?"
Star Trek Picard is not Star Trek
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, The collective works of Jacqueline Susann. The novels of Harold Robbins. The giants.Data had to learn the word "shit" from somewhere.
Or maybe they think it’s odd no one uses F-bombs on Star Trek for 7 seasons and all of a sudden it’s a thing.
How are you going to speak for other people and say, no, this is what they mean?
Just because you show gore does not mean you’re accurately representing consequences from violence. How many cheesy films from the 80s and 90s had an over abundance of gore just for the sake of it?
Elnor kills all these guys in a cool way (“choose to live”) and nothing happens to him. Stylish, cool. But he gets a stern talking to.
Or maybe they want some consistency from TNG? Or maybe they want something more creative from a work of SF? It could be a variety of different reasons.
You do realize those seasons were on broadcast TV, right?
Again, to quote JL, "Merde!"
Major characters dying in Star Trek wasn't a thing until 1982. Then it was.
And was promptly reversed in 1984.
Obviously but it doesn’t make it any less jarring, same with The first TNG movie. Not to mention that TNG seemed to avoid characters sounding too contemporary in TNG, which has nothing to do with censors, yet on PIC it’s common. So the whole thing comes across as markedly different, as far as the way people talk.
I get why it’s done in PIC by I also think there’s some legitimacy to the criticisms as well.
They did? Pretty sure the English I heard in TNG was straight up 20th Century English.
This doesn’t even make sense since I’m specifically referring to the F-word. As a defense of swearing in general, ok. But just repeating this to respond to specific instances like the one I mentioned doesn’t really address what I said.
Why does the usage (or non-usage) of profane language determine the level of creativity of a work?
Do you think Catullus wrote all those swearwords in his infamous 16th poem because he was too lazy to think of more colorful and nuanced insults?
But the F word was a quick way to be censored, fined and have the FCC all over your production. It is a different era, not a reflection of what was done in Trek.
F-word?. S-word? M-mot? Whats the difference?
In TNG, not only as suggested before it being on terrestrial TV, we were following the crew were senior officers on the flagship of the Federation. There was a certain amount of decorum shown. That’s not to suggest I couldn’t have seen Riker or Geordi dropping an occasional F-bomb. But likely in moments we (obviously) didn’t see.
As for it being common, I don’t know about that. The usage has been fairly fleeting. This isn’t a Quentin Tarantino movie (but we did almost have that...)
Danj talking to her boyfriend in EP 1 sounds like characters on a regular tv show set in present day. Younger people in TNG like Wesley and his friends didn’t sound that way in TNG. I’m assuming it was an effort not to date it. Doesn’t Raffi’s son say something like “it totally sucked being your son.” Yet, no one used that slang expression on TNG that I can remember despite the word being just as common in the early 90s.
It's 2020 Star Trek, not a Kevin Smith comedy. They've been used just a few times and more or less in context. It's not like Picard is walking around his chateau screaming: "Where my Romulan mo-fos at? Can a f---er get a damn croissant up in this bitch?"
It is the equivalent of a curse word in English, and it was likely consciously chosen in order to avoid the probable censorship of the words. The writers wanted to use a "curse" word.
Really?
If you’re trying to show precedence for the use of “fuck” in TNG it’s probably best to quote a character actually saying “fuck.”
This is the problem you want to address? There's nothing in the story structure or narrative?
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