Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 1x04 - "Memento Mori"
- Thread starter Commander Richard
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I could definitely do without hearing the phrase "Who cares?" again.
Who - okay, you know the tune.
Got there before I could.
No, I'm watching this one, and on this one they speak colloquial English, not the stuffy patois they did during the Berman period.
Colliquialisms are better than artificial language speak that's trying too hard to be the evolution of humanity.
"Run! Hide! The monsters are coming!"
"Fig, you know monsters aren't real."
Lady, you live in SPACE people have encountered all sorts of terrible creatures a child, or even a adult, would be horrified by. Monsters are very much "real."
"Fig, you know monsters aren't real."
Lady, you live in SPACE people have encountered all sorts of terrible creatures a child, or even a adult, would be horrified by. Monsters are very much "real."
They're gonna have a Hell of a time finding mine to zap.
With all the storage boxes of Sci-Fi stuff I have spread from the basement to the attic, even I can't remember anymore which one has the VHS tapes in it.
She hasn't.
I thought they lived on a planet? "Monster" is relative.
Then try this: do you not think that it's understandable to expect a work of fiction set in a particular time period to put a reasonable amount of effort into selling the idea that they are, in fact, in that time period?
Take HBO's Rome, for instance. While the dialogue is in English they made a great deal of effort to represent the actual world and values of first century BCE Rome. This is in contrast with a lot of other historical films that make efforts to "convert" their heroes into modern versions or their world into a stereotypical representation of what people in general think when they imagine the time period.
So, yeah, this is the future and it can be whatever we imagine, but both in terms of design, tech and world, I'd like to be sold the idea that it is actually a few centuries ahead. This includes, for me, and especially since English is actually the language they use in-universe, not using idioms that will be out-of-style in six months' time. Now, I'm essentially supporting another poster's argument, here, but I sympathise with it.
There's that word again ...
Have I started a trend?
Also, I'm pretty sure that a person can't "play" obtuse (it's not an instrument), but they certainly can 'act' that way.
But it's not a time period. It's a imagined setting designed to speak to contemporary audiences.
Well, if you play with a protractor you can play obtuse if you want!There's that word again ...
Have I started a trend?
Also, I'm pretty sure that a person can't "play" obtuse (it's not an instrument), but they certainly can 'act' that way.
It's set in the 23rd century. That's a time period, even if it's in the speculative future.
The point is that we each have our "boundaries" of what we consider too current or not. I don't think it's "absurd" for one poster to say that one thing is too of-our-time for one's tastes. And personally, I have never heard anyone complain about the dialogue in TNG, for instance, being too "stilted". Seemed fine to me.
"Boo-Boop-di-Doo! 23 Skidoo! This book is almost as out of date as I am."
Trek's not set in "particular time period."
It's set in a malleable and continually changing fantasy world.
That world was originally a projection of the 1960s. Right now, it's 2022.
It's a kind of silly conceit that some people have, that people in stories set in other times and places ought to speak in their idea of formal English. As if those people didn't speak in colloquial language.
And I'm so glad that Trek has inally kicked that to the curb.