What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?
- Thread starter Amasov
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I'm just helping along Data's prediction about TV by 2040.
So "TV" (remembering how TV was described in DS9 Past Tense) continued for 16 years after the start of WWIII. Now that's some stickituity.
It's those Baby Boomers. They just couldn't let go of the damn TV set.
I've got a family I've been watching for the last 25 years.
They used to fight over which cartoons to watch before school, and now they all have multiple screens and their bedroom doors are firmly shut.
Good, bad, fuck it, it's just the way things are going.
In a time of crisis people relied on news, escapism, commentary, and allegory until they no longer had the luxury of doing so.
I agree. There's way less interracial sex in season two of Bridgerton.
I feel bad for the entire original cast of Picard. I think they had more to tell with Soji and Rios. I feel like they were kicked out in favor of nostalgia, but the Trek characters we know and love had to start out new themselves. Why couldn't at least Rios and Soji get more time to shine.
And the actress for Soji plays 2x characters that can have more adventures.
Rios himself is ripe for adventure, especially if you pull him back from the past being "Slightly Older" and very experienced in the past, but ready to continue his life in the future.
Jurati can play the new Borg Queen, but a very different one then our previous Borg Queens.
She can be more like Seven of Nine, w/o nearly as many Borg Prosthetics permanently attached.
Agreed with one small, big caveat: Star Trek is the Twilight Zone - with a fixed cast.
Sounds like a small detail, but makes a big difference in practice: Not a lot of cruel endings or twists about the main characters, setting or else. Which "accidentally" results in a much more optimistic show.
But yeah. It's not Lord of the Rings in space. That's Star Wars.
It could have been done, if each episode took place in a different time stream. Which shows without continuity accidentally would seem to do.
In broad strokes I think the greatest desire for humans is familiarity. For many, familiarity, while at times dull, also brings about a certain level of security. It creates a safe space from which to explore the universe. Unfortunately, it can become so familiar that we don't want to embrace change. I know, at least from my experience, that I struggle strongly with change and that any change can bring about a measure of anxiety. And I think, at least for many, there is a seeking of comfort food viewing because any changes is difficult to manage.
You just want to go back for a moment. You know you can't live there, but it's a nice place to visit.
Then there's the phrase, "Familiarity breeds contempt."
Which could explain at least some of the disdain of shows from the past.
Which could explain at least some of the disdain of shows from the past.
I thought of that too.
I'm not saying this should be a dramatic revelation. But in a fandom that preaches humanity evolved then goes "oh, well, that's just human." *shrug* it makes me ask a lot of questions.People like the familiar. WHAA?How many CSI NCIS Law n Orders have there been? In fact I just watched a VOY tonight. It was horrible but I wanted “dumb tv” as we call untaxing fare here in my household.
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