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What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?
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New doesn't make money. New involves risk.
And all my starships had windscreens.
And all my starships had windscreens.
To be fair even in TOS it appears the producers didn't even know for sure. Kirk looks right into the Enterprise viewscreen to see his bridge crew stuck in suspended animation in "Requiem for Methuselah." Even if that wasn't the original intent it's clear TOS veered between "giant, very advanced wall TV" and "window you could project displays onto."
Honestly, I know it's a weird hill to battle over but I never got the dustup over windows but I still like having them there. To me, having a window is just fine, and not having a window is fine. Starships have windows all over the place, but one on the Bridge? *puts in monocle* Perish the thought.
I don;'t like the aesthetic. It breaks the curve of the hull. You can't see anything much beyond said hull without advanced sensors, so why? Bury the bridge deep in the hull.
If no new was ever made, we would have nothing. New does make money. But Hollyweird is totally risk adverse.
I agree to bury the bridge. But, if it will be up there in the stupidest position possible then window is no problem.
Mileage will vary. Every ship I ever built has a front window.
New doesn't guarantee money.
We've been through this before with Hollywood. In the '50s, movies started losing audiences to television. So they kept making movies bigger and bigger and bigger. That's how you got giants like The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur. But interest in a lot of these movies couldn't keep up with the increasing budgets and spectacle. And these movies were becoming more-and-more out-of-touch with the Changing Times of the '60s. So cinema came crashing down. Then they began making lower-budget movies that wouldn't hurt the studio as much if they flopped because it wouldn't be as big of a loss.
Fast-forward to Today. We're again at the point where movies have had gigantic budgets, bigger than ever before, so they don't want to risk anything. But, at the same time, these movies feel out-of-touch with the times we're in, the interest is dwindling, and the Quarantine has possibly mortally wounded theaters. Made worse by larger and better TV screens at home.
Cinema will survive what's happening right now, but they'll make smaller lower-budgeted movies again, because they'll have no choice. And that's when we'll start to see them taking risks again.
Some people will say to me, "You're crazy! That's not going to happen!" But it will.
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The fact that this song is canon makes me happy:
It's a brilliant song, and the scene it's used in is hilarious.
P.S. Flippin' the bird, also canonical.
And I love that there's more than a minute worth of song after Spock nerve pinches him. 
I just assume the bridge has been redesigned a couple times. Not a TMP style full refit, but fiddled with between The Cage and Discovery and again between Strange New Worlds and TOS.
Picard. Sarek and Generations. Sisko. Emissary. Troi. The Child, The Survivors and The Loss. Data. Generations. Dr Crusher. Justice. Yar. Hide and Q. Scotty. TWOK. Torres. Legacy. Spock. TMP.
That would be ludicrous.
You misunderstand me. They were some of my favorite parts as well. Well, Mudd atam any rate. Just because they are goody, just because they are enjoyable doesn't mean they are necessary to the success of the show. DISCO could have worked just as well without these connections. Case in point...
TNG, DS9, VOY, even ENT did not rely on integral connections to TOS. None of the characters were descendants or ancestors to TOS characters, TOS characters only appear in one-off episodes of these other series.
I mean, I cannot even... TNG literally opened every week with a "Space, the final frontier" intro.
Not to mention the fact that its entire core premise and format is identical to that of TOS.
But hey, why keep score?
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Also: Klingons. (And Romulans).
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