Star Trek embraced diversity from its very beginning. No idea why folks struggle with this. Maybe the news media has turned their brain to mush.
What do people think of SNW (spoiler free please)
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Star Trek embraced diversity from its very beginning. No idea why folks struggle with this. Maybe the news media has turned their brain to mush.
Star Trek before DSC did nothing for the LGBTQ+ community. NO-THING. Star Trek languished behind while society actually progressed. There is nothing over the top in DSC or SNW. If anything, it is well passed due based upon current culture.
And I say that as a non-liberal, but still someone who values diversity and acceptance in human relationships.
Star Trek has AWLAYS told stories that paralleled what was going on in society at the time the show was written. There have been episodes on race, the tragedy and aftermath of war, drug addiction, a GREAT many stories on the subject of god etc. Some were subtle, some were not. "Day of the Dove" was as subtle as a punch in the mouth, as was the soap box that Picard would stand on when trying to make a point to Q or some other race about humanity.
I only watched about the first season and a half of Discovery, but I don't remember anyone "preaching" to me. There was a gay couple sure, but they weren't standing around making speeches on a weekly basis. They were officers who so happened to be together and every once in awhile you would see them in their quarters talking about their day. Discovery had its issues, but preaching wasn't one of them. And I say that as someone who is not on the left end of the political spectrum.
Friend, just stop engaging. This fire will burn itself out soon enough. No need to add fuel.
Yes, why can't it keep the politics out of it, like TNG, DS9 and Voyager.
...You did watch those shows, right?
VOY didn't do it best in almost any category except theme music and hologram sentience.
Until Author Author when they turned the Federation into slavers...
I was all set to like this post, then you had to start bashing TNG. Me and millions of others find them quite relatable...
Ssssoo...if Discovery makes it to seven seasons you'll consider it as good as TNG, DS9 and Voyager?
The Federation clearly has a very unhealthy attitude towards AI in the late 24th century. Obsolete EMH programs. Synths. Yet more proof of Federation hypocrisy and a system that can't even fix its own problems before it lectures the rest of the quadrant.
No, but it's a valid way that many have enjoyed greatly.
Perhaps you should not have used the term woke agenda unironically if you wanted any one to take you seriously...
What, exactly, in your mind, is the difference?
Obviously they didn't push you hard enough...
By "preached at" you mean...having gay people exist?
Great: now we're an improv duo.
Well, my dad always said I had a face for comedy.
More on topic, I get that TNG was popular but does that make it the only way to write Star Trek.
Yep. The James Bond franchise saw its greatest box office numbers adjusted for inflation and height of global popularity and pop culture dominance during the Sean Connery films of the 1960s but had Bond films remained the way they were in, say, 1963(hard-edged espionage thrillers with little comic relief) the films wouldn't have made it to 1980 much less the early 21st century.
I prefer not to eat 'serial' every week, lacks nutrients and gives me indigestion. I think a varied diet of diverse episodes is a much healthier alternative.
Some of the better current trek with less focus on contemporary political issues thankfully. More episodic, and some great casting of old TOS characters. Sickbay is on fire!! The prequel the Emterprise was not.
I agree. SNW is everything Enterprise strived to be but failed. The characters on Enterprise are so wooden with the exception of Phlox. It has a few good entertaining episodes but the entire series has always been a dud for me.
Oh, by the way...
Yay!
Yay!
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