Which itself has never been a perfect film free from storytelling and other flaws no matter how awesome it is.
Star Trek Picard is not Star Trek
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Indeed and it is becoming painful to deal with that insistence that films capture something that is impossible to capture. I'm seeing it more and more on the Internet, with so many comic book adaptions and the insistence that they capture a feeling that is difficult, if not impossible, to capture on screen.The same can be said of Star Wars, IMO.
People trash the sequels/prequels because they don't get the same "spiritual experience" that they did from A New Hope.
Not only is it nearly impossible, but it creates such a hostile environment for others to actually enjoy the product. I mean, isn't life too short already without adding in watching things that are not enjoyable?
Kirk says as much in A Taste of Armageddon. He's a barbarian and ready to nuke the planet. War is avoided only by choosing to not go there. He later sets up a proxy war with the Klingons in A Private Little War. These are not utopian solutions just very human ones in awful situations that had no easy answers.
The fact that TOS was and remains so flawed helps me enjoy the series in the franchise that I don't like as much. If my all-time favorite Star Trek series had an inconsistent and often muddled message and internal continuity I'm less likely to hold TNG, DS9, VOY, ENT, DSC or PIC to the fire as abominations because they make mistakes.
I saw it at 18, just on the cusp of being out of the range for a "spiritual experience". But nothing beats the first time a Star Destroyer "flies" over your head.The same can be said of Star Wars, IMO.
People trash the sequels/prequels because they don't get the same "spiritual experience" that they did from A New Hope.
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I knew I could count on you!
Plus, TOS depicted 23rd century humans as, well, human. Kirk could threaten an entire planet with destruction, McCoy could call Spock bigoted nicknames and officers argued and fought amongst themselves because no matter what the human race goes through in terms of war, scientific development or philosophical evolution we're going to remain impulsive primates that lose our tempers and judge others as being not up to our standards - standards we ourselves often don't manage to live up to but pretend we do.
It actually took me a couple of seconds!
Lord, I've seen people argue that General Order 24 wasn't supposed to be an actual thing because they didn't believe Kirk would order the destruction of a planet to make a point. He would. He did.
I still remember being told that I wasn't a "real" SUPERMAN fan by some guy who probably wasn't even born when I was watching George Reeves on our old black-and-white TV.
And I refuse to believe that Starfleet in TOS wouldn't have such a regulation on the books to threaten a potential adversary in a life-or-death situation. In our real world during the Cold War both we and the Soviet Union had a policy of Mutual Assured Destruction wherein two societies who claimed to care about innocent life and noncombatants would proceed to utterly destroy one another's cities and very foundations of civilization if a war ever escalated to a global nuclear exchange.
Spare me the "but the future will be a peaceful paradise" routine. Even Roddenberry didn't seem to believe it at times.
Spare me the "but the future will be a peaceful paradise" routine. Even Roddenberry didn't seem to believe it at times.
Brophy must be shown this.
Neither did I.
Then again, when I was a teenager, TOS was the only STAR TREK there was. TNG and its spawn didn't come along until I was nearly thirty.
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Alas, Brophy already knows, my son, for Brophy knows all.
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