Entertainment Weekly Cover Story (7/28)
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No, but I guess like any group of people working on something, they have a wide range of differing views and preferences of some aspects of the show. These are creative people, I'm sure – and I hope – they have different opinions and fight a lot in the writer's room. Sometimes that's how great ideas are made.
Everyone calm down about the set anecdote. It was one moment taken out of context, and neither the EW writer nor anyone else here understands the larger context that informed Kirsten's note. She is an experienced and talented writer of Star Trek narratives, and she has good reasons for the notes she offers both in the writers' room and on-set. So please, don't read anything into that moment — it's grounded in her big-picture knowledge of the character and the larger story; it was not a knee-jerk slam at religion.
Not everything. The gold on the uniforms isn't blue!
Fortunately it's possible to have fantastic stories that fit within canon. No problem!
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Agreed. Religion and God were mentioned on TOS in a few episodes (like "Bread and Circuses" - so yeah, I'm now wondering IF some of them really DID watch "Star Trek" because GR often broke his own 'sacred cow' rules on that show.
It's not a solid fact.
It's a plot point from a TV episode made over half a century ago.
Don't let a mediocre story get in the way of good canon, that's what I always say.
Yeah, I always interpreted that as a "how quaint" moment. Christianity in this parallel earth is 2000 year too late.
That being said, the Marxist utopia didn't exist till TNG
Yeas I'm replying to myself, but as for: "You can't say 'God' in Star Trek:
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So yeah, I guess even though they mentioned Star Trek VI as something ST: D might be like, the writer who mentioned 'can't say God...' missed the above scene.
Then what WAS it?
If Kirsten had other reasons for not allowing God to be mentioned onscreen...what are they?
Perhaps not, but as a Christian, I will confess to having winced when I read that part of the interview, particularly when religion - good and bad aspects - was covered in varying degrees in Trek, especially in DS9.
Of course one might argue that DS9 was after the time of Roddenberry, but I do remember Bread and Circuses in the original series. Edit: And someone posted upthread about Sulu saying it.
It just sounded really bad.
Kirsten Beyer is a TrekBBS member, IIRC. So why not let her explain it?
I mean, if we're supposed to believe all that stuff about the comment being taken out of "context"...then it would help to know what that "context" actually is.
I mean, if we're supposed to believe all that stuff about the comment being taken out of "context"...then it would help to know what that "context" actually is.
Plus all the times Kirk, McCoy, or someone else said, "My God" in the films, which was quite a few.
It's got nothing to do with religion. I'm not religious.
Let these people speak colloquial language.
If the producers think the audience has been missing that solemn, stuffy, self-conscious declaiming that characterized Star Trek for a generation they may have an unpleasant surprise in store.
Let these people speak colloquial language.
If the producers think the audience has been missing that solemn, stuffy, self-conscious declaiming that characterized Star Trek for a generation they may have an unpleasant surprise in store.
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