What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?

[Eremurus]

I was thinking if Lincoln from "The Savage Curtain" had called Sisko a negro, the latter would have probably beaten him senseless four scores and seven times before he'd said another word.

Yeah, that scene DID not age well and I could not believe my eyes when I first saw it.

 

[cooleddie74]

TAS is clunky but fine. It works for me the way it was originally produced. It was a Trek relaunch done on a Saturday morning animation budget in 1973 and 1974.

I'm fine with it as-is.

 

[cooleddie74]

Yeah, that scene DID not age well and I could not believe my eyes when I first saw it.

It was aired in 1969 and it was also how Lincoln himself would also likely have spoken. Aghast is far from how I view the scene. Even the producers had the good sense to show Uhura not even remotely offended by the facsimilie's language.

 

[TheNatural]

The Bajoran people are wholly unlikeable and each time I rewatch DS9 I find myself almost rooting for the Cardassians.

Seriously, Bajor is basically space Alabama with their idiocy and evangelism.

It's established early on that post-occupation they can barely function to the point of being in danger of not being able to feed themselves, and also their literal prophet is established to be the local starfleet commander in charge of Terok Nor, yet they constantly harp about wanting them to leave? What?

 

[freethinker]

I think "Justice" is a fine episode which an exploration of the problems caused by the prime directive. The planet is a little unorthodox but what planet isn't? They wanted to show that even in an apparent paradise there is often a worm in the apple, so to speak.

 

[Lord Garth]

I like "Point of Light" (DSC) and "Stardust City Rag" (PIC), a lot.

Granted, I understand negative reactions to "Stardust City Rag", since we're seeing characters from TNG and VOY in a type of story that never would've been done in the '90s or, if it were, it would've been executed (no pun intended) a lot differently.

But even though I understand the reaction, I don't have it, so I enjoyed the episode for what it was: a look at darker, seedier area of space outside the Federation with Seven of Nine having take matters in her own hands in a place where anyone can get away with anything. This episode actually literally is a Space Western.

To boot, it has Seven and Picard comparing notes about being ex-drones. Again, something that wouldn't have been able to happen in the '90s, this time simply due to the fact that the TNG Movies and VOY took place on opposite ends of the galaxy.

With "Point of Light", I like Amanda taking matters into her own hands, the subplot with Tilly finally went somewhere, Georgiou was a Badass, and finally got to see the very real point addressed that other Klingons would try to challenge L'Rell and that it be even worse from Klingon men because, being the type of culture they are, they'd wonder, "Why aren't one of us in control?!" I suspect this episode struck a nerve with a lot of misogynists. I remember the people (not to name names) who complained that "Star Trek is woke now!" really took issue with this one.

 

[suarezguy]

I don't think Nick Locarno was, or would have been, a better character than Tom Paris was.

 

[cooleddie74]

Lon Suder should have stayed on VOY as a regular character. It would have given that series an edge that it never had.

 

[freethinker]

I don't think Nick Locarno was, or would have been, a better character than Tom Paris was.

I didn't know that was controversial. It sounds like common sense to me. Plus "Tom Paris" is a better name IMHO.

 

[Maurice]

I was thinking if Lincoln from "The Savage Curtain" had called Sisko a negro, the latter would have probably beaten him senseless four scores and seven times before he'd said another word.

It was aired in 1969 and it was also how Lincoln himself would also likely have spoken. Aghast is far from how I view the scene. Even the producers had the good sense to show Uhura not even remotely offended by the facsimilie's language.

Although it began its fall from grace after Stokely Carmichael coined the term “black power” in June 1966, the word “Negro” had been considered a respectable term and how most black Americans described themselves at the time of Star Trek’s TV debut. Terms change, and you'd expect Sisko to know that.

 

[fireproof78]

This episode actually literally is a Space Western.

Exactly. Stardust City pretty much reminded me of most frontier colonies reference, especially Yar's backstory, or Jason whateverhisname that was supposedly Picard's son.

 

[freethinker]

Exactly. Stardust City pretty much reminded me of most frontier colonies reference, especially Yar's backstory, or Jason whateverhisname that was supposedly Picard's son.

What I'd like to know is how Bok (sp?) managed to change Jason's DNA without him or his mother noticing anything.

 

[Farscape One]

His mother was dead for years before the episode aired. But that is a good question.

 

[1001001]

What I'd like to know is how Bok (sp?) managed to change Jason's DNA without him or his mother noticing anything.

https://www.technobabble.biz/

 

[BoTWoT]

Darmok is a terrible episode, but Dawn is awesome. Explore the same concept slightly differently, and once in a while it's actually better!

 

[Pikirk_Janesisko]

- Catspaw is a good episode.
- Lwaxanna Troi and Vic Fontaine are the most irritating characters ever.
- Except for the Moriarty episodes and "Bride of Chaotica", holodeck episodes are usually terrible.
- I actually like Neelix!

 

[1001001]

-Except for the Moriarty episodes and "Bride of Chaotica", holodeck episodes are usually terrible.

I think I’m one of very few people who love Emergence.

 

[freethinker]

I think I’m one of very few people who love Emergence.

O brave new world, that has such episodes in it.

 

[dupersuper]

I think I’m one of very few people who love Emergence.

I think I’m one of very few people who doesn't like the Moriarty episodes.

 

[freethinker]

His mother was dead for years before the episode aired. But that is a good question.

Come to think of it, Jason was already born when Picard killed Bok's son, so Bok somehow was able to track down Picard's girlfriends, find one that had a child at a time that could have made it possible for him to be Picard's child but that Picard didn't know about, find out that it wasn't Picard's child, and managed somehow to change the DNA of said child without anybody noticing it, with some remote-controlled DNA changing operation or what else?

Wow! If a greedy Ferengi (instead of a vengeful one) gets his hands on this apparatus, imagine the money he would make with fake paternity suits around the galaxy.