What makes you ADORE Star Trek

[Tallguy]

A wise person once said:

Oh, good.

Yet another “what don’t you like about Star Trek” thread.

I'm gonna FIX it!

I'm going to do terrible things to my weekly routine (with teenage kids in the first weeks of school) so I can go see movies and SHOWS that I have seen countless times IN A THEATER. My SON told me to skip his weekly band performance because "It's The Motion Picture!"

I really want to see Star Trek: The Voyage Home in a theater on it's 40th anniversary. But why am I really going? TO SEE CITY ON THE EDGE OF FOREVER.

Adam Savage just did an episode with Matt Cushman about his cutaway Enterprise poster, a ship that was designed over sixty years ago and I was riveted.

We watched Strange New Worlds this week in a very "meh" episode. And I thought "But it's still Star Trek!"

I'm making more concrete plans for the 60th anniversary of Star Trek than I did for the 250th anniversary of my COUNTRY (which I also adore and also assume, like Star Trek, will be OK). (And gave me Star Trek!)

Everything that bugs me about Star Trek is transitory. Everything I adore about Star Trek? It's eternal.

What have you got?

 

[ichab]

That's a tough question. For me it's most likely a connection to my family. I was taken at a very young age to see TWOK and I've been following it ever since. I use to watch TNG with my father and we've went together to see most of the movies. Some series I like more than others and I'll always go out of my way to see new Star Trek even if I don't stick with it very long. Same goes for Star Wars. Those were the two franchises I grew up with.

 

[fireproof78]

Personally, it's the characters. From Spock to Torres, and the enjoyable outsider characters, to characters working through pain and trauma, like Kirk, Star Trek makes characters feel very much relatable one way or another. Even shows I'm not enthusiastic about the main characters there are secondary characters I very much enjoyed watching.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

The humor, the fact that you can tell any kind of story you want, the way the characters care about each other.

 

[CoveTom]

It is great entertainment. That above everything.

 

[Warp Core Breach]

Character interactions first and foremost, and the ability to tell relevant stories through allegory along with that.

 

[BillJ]

The imagination. Nothing more, nothing less. I love seeing big ideas play out on screen.

 

[Mudd]

When they tell big imaginative stories in an hour.

 

[Starflight]

The humanism is a big part; obviously its presence varies between episodes and it's sometimes entirely absent, but in the best moments of Star Trek, the stories are about people who are genuinely compassionate trying to do the right thing in a universe where conflict is resolved with understanding and emotional connection more than by phaser fire.

 

[Hellbird]

Its the connection to my childhood and to my dad especially. There's lots of shared moments I can look back on, and it somehow keeps it all alive.

The non-fiction stuff keeps the adoration burning too. YouTubers that manage to emulate the Fact-File era, such as TriAngulum Audio Studios or Venom Geek Media 98, keeps the whole thing alive in a more technical way. There's always something new to learn.

But, deep down, I adore the ships.

 

[Detached Nacelle]

It's a little bit of everything but it is more abstract for me. When I watch Star Trek there is a feeling I get, a unique kind of frisson that only Star Trek can generate like my body recognises it. And my attention is entirely captured which for me is saying something.

So to be entirely unhelpful it is the fact that is Star Trek that makes me adore Star Trek.

 

[JamesRye]

What makes me adore Star Trek?

I am one of 'those trekkies' - the nerd who was laughed at in school, the guy who didn't fit in. I'm the fan who owns a few props from the show and has been to a couple of conventions. Star Trek spoke to me and I related to it on a level that no other TV show has. I wanted to live on the Enterprise D.

I do adore TOS and TNG. I like seeing people working together to solve problems cooperatively. I like it when a scientific approach is adopted as is the case for the bulk of the episodes. I like the secular, humanist vision of an evolved humanity that has overcome it's worst traits. I like how rational it is and I love the autistic characters like Spock and Data. I know the man had his faults in real life, but I am one of those who digs 'Gene's vision'. I think TOS and TNG captured that 'lightning in a bottle' - and I don't think it's ever been recaptured.

I really like DS9 and VOY, though I think they 'got away' with a lot of stuff that Roddenberry would have not approved of. Having said that, I still think they tried to stay within the sandbox and achieved this for the most part.

Then there's Enterprise, which never really worked for me, and the newer shows, which have their merits, but just aren't my cup of earl gray tea - because they don't conform to 'Gene's vision'. I'm not saying they aren't Star Trek of course - but they aren't my Star Trek.

I've stopped watching the new series - and I don't really rewatch the old stuff anymore because I've seen it countless times. My kids aren't interested in it, and I've no desire for them to watch it - I can see how dated it is when I do a rewatch. Sadly, I think Star Trek has had it's time. I think it's time to move on. I recommend to anybody to watch the SF on Apple TV, it really is superior stuff.

 

[1001001]

Let's see...

Optimism about the future.

Diversity is embraced.

Technology is a helpful tool to make life easier and better for everyone.

Superstition is largely replaced by science.

Cool spaceships.

 

[The Wormhole]

Sorry, I can't partake in this thread as I only believe in being negative.

 

[Tallguy]

Sorry, I can't partake in this thread as I only believe in being negative.

Know thyself. There appear to be lots of places here for it.

 

[F. King Daniel]

At this point, it's comfort viewing.

 

[TRON JA307020]

Most everything produced before Kurtzman Trek makes me adore Star Trek. Everything after(except picard season 3) makes me ready to see star trek end and go to television history for future generations to wonder what it was. The one good thing is much less people are watching nutrek than any other Trek before so its kind of dying a quiet death. Which I guess is better than it going out kicking and screaming.

 

[FredH]

The overall sense that humanity made it through okay. (Although the existence of World War III rather modifies that.)

 

[Tallguy]

The overall sense that humanity made it through okay. (Although the existence of World War III rather modifies that.)

THEY'RE fine. WE"RE in trouble.

Most everything produced before Kurtzman Trek makes me adore Star Trek. Everything after(except picard season 3) makes me ready to see star trek end and go to television history for future generations to wonder what it was. The one good thing is much less people are watching nutrek than any other Trek before so its kind of dying a quiet death. Which I guess is better than it going out kicking and screaming.

Um...

 

[TRON JA307020]

THEY'RE fine. WE"RE in trouble.


Um...

Well i did say what makes me adore trek. Im just trying to be honest. The early stuff was just so well written. Ill give you some examples. The first episide of trek I remember seeing was "Where No Man Has Gone Before". I saw it in a rerun as a kid but loved it. When I saw it it was already considered an older show. But what stood out to me was the writing and acting. The episode just hooked me and I watched every episode I could after. I adored that it was first and foremost entertaining. It aldo had real stakes. Kirk had to kill his best friend. Even the final fight scene was heart breaking. Its still in my top 5 and honestly probably my favorite. We aren't getting that kind of writing anymore so it makes me sad. But thats all ill say on the matter. I probably should have read your initial post first and I wouldnt have said anything negative. Im sorry. Im aware some people really love the new stuff and some say its even better. So im glad they got their trek time like I got mine. Its all good in the end.