How Sharper Than A Repetitive Title
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Titles are meaningless. Content more important.
TAS: "The Eye of the Beholder"; TNG: "Eye of the Beholder"
TAS: "The Survivor"; TNG: "The Survivors"
TNG: "The Emissary"; DS9: "Emissary"
TOS: "Wink of an Eye"; VGR: "Blink of an Eye"
DS9: "Facets"; VGR: "Faces"
TNG: "Remember Me"; VGR: "Remember"
DS9: "The Muse"; VGR: "Muse"
VGR: "Demon"; ENT: "Demons"
TNG: "First Contact"; Star Trek: First Contact
VGR: "Nemesis"; Star Trek: Nemesis
This is hardly anything new. And in a franchise with over 800 episodes and counting, some repetition is inevitable.
Indeed, if you want to complain about repetitive titles, you missed the obvious one -- this week's Discovery, episode 2 of season 4, was called "Anomaly," which was also the title of Enterprise season 3, episode 2. It's the first time that two different Trek episodes (as opposed to an episode and a movie) have had exactly the same title rather than just very similar titles. (Although that almost happened much earlier -- VGR: "Tsunkatse" was originally called "Arena" until someone caught it just days before it was aired.)
As I said...
They not only recycle titles -- they recycle entire EPISODES.
Enterprise remade "One" from Voyager (T'Pol and Phlox guide Enterprise through a toxic gas cloud).
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That's what made me quit watching Enterprise. "I liked this episode better the first time I saw it on TNG...not as much the second time on Voyager."
One of a handful of examples of the VOY episode being better than the ENT remake.
You said "running out of ideas," as if it were something that only started recently. My point is that the phenomenon has been happening for over thirty years, so it has nothing to do with anything "running out," and it's certainly not a fault unique to the new shows.
Like I said, when you've got more than 800 episodes, the occasional repetition is pretty much inevitable.
Besides, you guys are talking about episodes of ENT made over 15 years ago by a totally different creative team than the people making the current shows. Isn't that changing the subject?
As you said...
FWIW, count me as one of those people who doesn't think "original plots" are that important to a good story. The key to making the story unique is not the scenarios you put the characters through, but the reactions of the characters. A plot could have been used by every single Trek series, with different results, because you're dealing with different characters.
The key though is you actually have to understand the characters and their motivations. All too often Trek has basically used the cast as interchangeable plot-solving devices, little bits of banter aside.
I believe the technical term is "coat hanger."
And that was part of my problem with Enterprise...you could tell that they were writing for, say, Picard and Worf, but the scene just didn't work with Archer and Reed.
I really liked that every episode, all 800+, had a different title, and was hoping they'd keep finding workarounds.
They just need to add more "The's" in the titles.
They should've called last week's episode "Anomaly, Doo-doo, Do-doo-doo."
We are Star Trek Fans. If title are the thing to complain about today, then complain we shall.
This is the way.
She's not COMPLETELY intangible (she can operate a keypad).
Careful ... this is a KID'S show now.
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Which just makes it more puzzling that intangibility seems to be her default setting.
Although since the hologram is an extension of the computer, it could be that she's not actually physically depressing the keys, but merely interfacing with their underlying software, with the visual appearance of operating the controls being a teaching tool for observing cadets.
I was going to suggest the word "phenomena" might work better for that lil' ditty, and here some clever b*st*rd actually edited a video! Not only was I beaten to the punch, but also majorly "one upped"! I salute the creativity of fans!
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