ST has been fine with showing disabled people. Pike, Geordi, Miranda Jones and Riva. All without allegory We also have Gem, who was mute and Hemmer who was blind.
Star Trek is not about escaping into a fantasy world were no problems exist. It's about commenting on the present through the lens of Science Fiction. It's not set in a different universe. it's set in an approximation of ours. The idea that SF ( and Trek in particular) should somehow be exempt "profanity, silly jokes and humor and teen angst" because its Sci-Fi is patently absurd. Science Fiction doesn't play by a different set of rules that other forms of fiction. As Roddenberry said "Keep in mind that science fiction is not a separate field of literature with rules of its own, but, indeed, needs the same ingredients as any story -- including a jeopardy of some type to someonewe learn to care about, climactic build, sound "motivitation, you know the list.
Nope."Dude, WTF" would naturally be part of the linguistic history of a SF property set in Earth's future, Not so much in Middle Earth.
the original vision of ST...a portrayal of optimism for the future, not a bleak dystopia , which sadly, elements of which we see now, in real life!
Deanna Troi from First Contact: "Poverty, War, Disease have all been eliminated" ..in that context, seems like we've gone backwards, now I get the idea that history can repeat itself, (in some ways we are seeing that now globally)
I get both sides of the argument, perhaps the solution would have been a single line where they might have indicated that some of the previous technology was lost, but then you seem to have huge leaps in other technology (holograms that breathe and need to shower, for example)..so a little inconsistency there.
Keep in mind also that Gene had physicists and Engineers that he regularly consulted with for scientific accuracy, when writing episodes, which is where the term 'phaser' came from. He originally called them 'Lasers;, but physicists told him that lasers can't vaporize people, so he created the phaser. Also the whole concept of Warp drive as I recall....
sometimes a single line is all it takes.
There is a scene in "My Cousin Vinny" where Vinny tells a guy that Lisa "Knows everything about cars"...and that helps setup her crushing (automotive) testimony at the end of the film.
as far as the language thing, it's clearly an attempt to ingratiate certain demographics, I understand that, but from my perspective this comes across as talking down to the audience, even the target demographic. They get it, whether the language used is more elegant or more vernacular.
The overuse of present day language simply comes off as gratuitous, in my humble opinion. As does the use of ill timed humor.
