*shrugs* To me, it's an acceptable dramatic conceit. In real life, English in the 24th and 25th Centuries will probably have changed as much from 21st Century English as 21st Century English has changed from Elizabethan era English. Someone from the year 2399 listening to me speak contemporary English would probably find they have to make the same kind of effort to follow what I'm saying as I typically find I need to make to follow a monologue from Shakespeare or Marlowe. So since Star Trek is starting from the conceit of, "Let's use a form of English that the audience can understand easily instead of depicting how English might really evolve and change over time?," to me it follows naturally that you would just use contemporary vernacular English rather than prescriptivist formal English. Especially since the latter is no less a product of its era and culture than the former, and especially since use of the latter over the former is implicitly classist. I am genuinely surprised! And also that is ridiculous. It's just the word fuck. It's an objectively meaningless verbalization that in modern contexts is mostly just an interjection expressing strong emphasis! You might as well have a headline about them using the word very!
I would recommend watching "History of Swear Words" on the word. Quite fascinating to see how long its history is and why it is utterly ridiculous to imagine it going out of style. But click bait gots to click bait I suppose.
Next year in order to feel more contemporary we find out new Starfleet uniforms come complete with skinny jeans and jacket with a hoodie.
Kids don't wear skinny jeans and hoodies anymore? They at least wear baggy pants and backwards caps I assume and like riding skateboards.
Hey I wear sweatpants all the time as well. I bet I am pretty fire looking to the youngsters and they probably think I am happening and with it.
You're being very naive if you think that one and only F bomb in the entire season (series?), early on, wasn't done for the sole purpose of generating headlines, which as the above (1 page of many) search result proves, it did. It was a childish headline grabber, nothing more. At least ST: Picard has the sense to use it in more than one scene so as to make it slightly more natural.
Nope! In fact, Zoomers make fun of Millennials for wearing skinny jeans. They think we're weird old people for it. Yes, we've established that I was wrong about that already. Do keep up. Yes. Yes, the word for thinking that professional writers know that grown adults won't be interested in the use of a swear word in a TV show is "naive." Not "jaded" -- "naive," its exact opposite. Here's a thought: Maybe they didn't use the word to get headlines (which I cannot imagine would have any impact on streaming subscription sales). Maybe they used it because it was fucking awesome.
Given the writing on Discovery (and Picard's latter half) I have a hard time considering the writers professional, but ok. Obviously grown adults were interested, because it spawned a ton of headlines and achieved a lot of extra mindshare and word of mouth because of it.
It didn't bother me. It was surprising at first, but no more so really than Data saying "Shit" in GEN.
I assure you, none of them are doing this, their full-time job, without getting paid. They are professionals. Headlines are meaningless unless they increase subscription numbers; if subscriptions don't go up, the producers have no incentive to obtain scandalized headlines over the use of a bad language word. Do you have any evidence that these pearl-clutching headlines actually increased subscriptions for CBS All-Access?
Of course I don't have any evidence, how could I? It's just basic common sense. I'm not saying one F bomb and a million online articles talking about made the subscription numbers double overnight, but it's one small thing among many that production companies do to increase viewership. In this case, they did one thing, in the first few episodes, in a manner that practically shone a spotlight on it as it happened, and then NEVER did that thing again (correct me if I'm wrong, certainly not in the first season). The only thing missing from their childish execution was to have someone gasp or drop a glass. Anyway, it's all opinions. It doesn't really matter. You love Discovery, I don't. We'll not convince each other that it's bad/great. I'd love Streaming Trek to be great (imo), and for that quality to then be recognised with lots of Emmy awards, but alas... maybe next year.
I see it’s the Great F-Bomb Debate, 4 years later and going strong. Glad to see we are still consistent on what we decide to be irked about. Now, if you’ll all excuse me, I’m headed to the ENT forum to complain about the theme song.