Two things: (A.) if you claim Star Trek is about social justice, the fact there are no LGBTQ people in the "regular" universe is a legitimate...
I endorse this comment. And there are a lot of gems in the first two seasons of DS9. Duet has been rightly cited, but what of In the Hands of the...
How do we define adulthood in an alien species? Even on Earth, eighteen is an arbitrary age set by legislatures. The age of majority differs...
Double post.
You don't see any abusive undertones in the way that Neelix treats Kes in episodes like The Phage or Twisted? Where he is incredibly emotionally...
The "social justice" line is a lovely piece of myth-building. However, it's largely not borne out. That multinational crew? Not Roddenberry's...
She was also only two years old. If even. A big part of her character arc is about growing and maturing into adulthood, something that implicit...
The TOS characters are the MOST popular and the MOST iconic. Everybody knows Kirk and Spock, not just fans. They have incredible name recognition....
Audience =/= fans, surely?
Same audience as the Avengers movies or the Nolan Batman movies. Anyone who might be interested, geek or not. The Next Generation was a...
Tsunkatse pandered to a different fan base not to a broader audience. And it was the exception, not the rule. What did Voyager actually do to...
The spectrum of Star Trek fandom is far too diverse and scattered - not to mention too damned insignificant - to produce a useful and meaningful...
Yep, but they were actively friendly with the Klingons at a point where the Empire had several policies that could be described as in contrast...
On the ENT blu rays, I recall Garfield Reeves Stevens saying that one of Coto's plans for the fifth season would have been to bring in a writer...
I think the issue was more WHICH worlds they were conquering. The Original Series seems to suggest it's not altruism that motivates Federation...
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