And Spock was supposed to eat via a metal plate on his chest and Troi was supposed to have three breasts. The studios, the networks and the writers have all sorts of ideas that never see the light of day.Please tell me you're joking...
Entertainment Weekly Cover Story (7/28)
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Yes, but is it the "Prime Church of Trek?"Look, we all know where this religion stuff is heading...
Schism!
So? Voyager had wrestling.Yeah, but...boy bands? What the actual hell?
And talent night.
Oh wow, an authoritative HuffPo piece!
Which repeats what we all know: traditional, institutional religion is declining in developed western countries.
Which means that religion will go away, right?
Except that it doesn't, and won't.
We're already going away, instead. Our developed, western expectations of the future are pretty much shot. No "Star Trek Universe" out there. What we've built, what we're building is poisoning our world.
And Enterprise had boy bands for no episodes
^ But you said it was supposed to have them. Was this going to be just a one-off joke (like VOY's wrestling episode), or somehow a recurring theme? Because I don't see how that could have ever worked.
Key word "supposed"
Apparently neither did the people in charge.
I drove around everywhere today to try to find this magazine. The only places that had Entertainment Weekly at all it was still the Black Panther issue. 
Maybe by "boy bands" the just mean Donnie Wahlberg has Malcolm's gruff, no-nonsense deputy?
Berman and Braga talk about it in this interview (40min40sec timestamp). Apparently the studio executives were clueless, they didn't know what "hull" means. It's a very candid talk on Enterprise in general, worth watching.Yeah, but...boy bands? What the actual hell?
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The article you referenced links to a Pew Research Center report that says this:
Atheists, agnostics and other people who do not affiliate with any religion – though increasing in countries such as the United States and France – will make up a declining share of the world’s total population.
Those clinging to outdated ideas will be atheists and agnostics.
A NPR story (link below) quotes the Pew Research Center attribute the lower birth rate of atheists and agnostics (compared to other groups) as one of the reasons that atheists and agnostics as a percentage of the total Human populations will be less in the decades to come.
http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsan...cast-for-2050-atheism-is-down-islam-is-rising
It could be just the opposite of what we're thinking. Lorca could be a devout Christian (or other religion) and it would be out of character for him to use God's name as an expletive.
"For God's sake" isn't an expletive, but that is an excellent point. I admit I didn't even think of it.
Birth rates are tied to standards of living and the level of education. When these improve in developing countries, they will follow the demographic patterns of western countries when it comes to birth rates and religiosity. Now, way things are going, it is perfectly possible that we're all fucked due the environment before this can happen, but in Star Trek the humanity obviously made it. In Federation there is extremely high standard of living and level of education, so that is way more likely to lead western style development (albeit even more pronounced) in the religiosity.
Not to mention boxing...
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