Here is the other thing I “dislike” about modern Trek and going all the way back to TNG where it started (as far as I can tell). It wasn’t so obvious at first, but it got worse as time went on.
I hate the way it’s written. The characters don’t talk like real people—they talk like comic book characters. They often talk in a way that strikes me as the writers think the viewer is stupid and needs to be led by the hand and have every little thing explained. It drives me nuts.
Small example. In TNG’s “Lower Decks” near the end Picard makes an all decks call to talk about the loss of a young crew member. He doesn’t start by saying, “Attention all hands, this is the Captain.” Nope, he starts with, “Attention all Starfleet personnel...”
And just who the fuck else is aboard the 1701D? Yeah, it seems like such a small thing, but it bugs me. It doesn’t sound real. It sounds like how it would be read in a comic book. And this sort of thing would get progressively worse in each successive series.
In TOS they stressed they were writing drama that was simply set aboard a starship rather than a contemporary courtroom, police station or western frontier town. What the characters were saying and how they said it could be almost wholly done the same no matter the setting. But thats not how modern Trek is written. Modern Trek so often so damned contrived that leaves me feeling no one really talks that way.
Modern Trek battle scenes are also boring as hell. There is no real tension. It’s “shields at thirty percent” and “full spread, fire at will.” There is no sense of real military thought behind it. There is no sense of tactics or strategy. It’s just show a screen overflowing with dogfighting ships shooting at everything. It’s long, long, long become such a cliche.
I hate the way it’s written. The characters don’t talk like real people—they talk like comic book characters. They often talk in a way that strikes me as the writers think the viewer is stupid and needs to be led by the hand and have every little thing explained. It drives me nuts.
Small example. In TNG’s “Lower Decks” near the end Picard makes an all decks call to talk about the loss of a young crew member. He doesn’t start by saying, “Attention all hands, this is the Captain.” Nope, he starts with, “Attention all Starfleet personnel...”
And just who the fuck else is aboard the 1701D? Yeah, it seems like such a small thing, but it bugs me. It doesn’t sound real. It sounds like how it would be read in a comic book. And this sort of thing would get progressively worse in each successive series.
In TOS they stressed they were writing drama that was simply set aboard a starship rather than a contemporary courtroom, police station or western frontier town. What the characters were saying and how they said it could be almost wholly done the same no matter the setting. But thats not how modern Trek is written. Modern Trek so often so damned contrived that leaves me feeling no one really talks that way.
Modern Trek battle scenes are also boring as hell. There is no real tension. It’s “shields at thirty percent” and “full spread, fire at will.” There is no sense of real military thought behind it. There is no sense of tactics or strategy. It’s just show a screen overflowing with dogfighting ships shooting at everything. It’s long, long, long become such a cliche.
