Illness

[Greg Cox]

Getting back to illnesses, Doctor Sevrin was some sort of futuristic Typhoid Memory,who had to be quarantined from the crew.

 

[T'Girl]

The transporter's biofilter could and would filter out known anomalies, and had its limitations against some viruses, as well as dealing with exotic organisms...while not perfect, it did pretty well...

Yet, it's baffled by physical injury.

And dirty clothes (The Enemy Within).

At its heart, Trek is about exploring what it means to be human, using space travel as a medium for telling the stories.

Star Trek is a action-adventure/drama set in space.

There's a lot of good philosophy in Star Trek.

And also a fair amount of poor philosophy.

Standing aside while a entire native species dies in the name of the prime directive, we saw Picard willing to do this at least twice. And in I, Borg that you should not protect yourself, if it mean devastating your enemy. It's confusing if a woman cries because she'll never see her children again. It's strange if a child is sad because their parent was killed.

 

[C.E. Evans]

At its heart, Trek is about exploring what it means to be human, using space travel as a medium for telling the stories.

Star Trek is a action-adventure/drama set in space.

QFT.

 

[Greg Cox]

Except when it's a courtroom drama, or a murder mystery, or a spy story, or a love story, or an outright comedy . . .

One of the great things about TREK is that its format is versatile enough to accommodate everything from war stories to thinly-disguised social allegories to imaginative sci-fi head trips. Like THE TWILIGHT ZONE and DOCTOR WHO, it's not stuck in just one storytelling mode.

So I get leery when people try insisting that TREK "is all about" Such-and-Such, whether that be "science," or "exploration", or "politics," or "utopia", or "space opera," or whatever. TREK is too big to be crammed into a single box or defined by just a single mission statement.

STAR TREK is large; it contains multitudes.

 

[C.E. Evans]

But basically it's an action-adventure/drama in space.


That format allows it to tell a wide variety of stories, including stories that don't have anything to do with space.

 

[Nerys Myk]

But basically it's an action-adventure/drama in space.


That format allows it to tell a wide variety of stories, including stories that don't have anything to do with space.

Early on it had an anthology feel, with the guest stars almost over shadowing the regulars.

 

[Greg Cox]

But basically it's an action-adventure/drama in space.


That format allows it to tell a wide variety of stories, including stories that don't have anything to do with space.

Early on it had an anthology feel, with the guest stars almost over shadowing the regulars.

No real surprise there, I suppose, since a lot of the early Trek writers had previously worked on The Twilight Zone, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and so on.

I once asked Richard Matheson why he only wrote one Trek episode ("The Enemy Within") and he explained that, in general, he preferred writing for anthology shows.

 

[wulfio]

And also a fair amount of poor philosophy.

Standing aside while a entire native species dies in the name of the prime directive, we saw Picard willing to do this at least twice.

That's your opinion. I quite like the prime directive. To me it is rather enlightened. And when you start making exceptions like that, the whole philosophy starts to crumble.

Any detraction's to the prime directive read to me the same as the US needing to stick their nose in to everyone's business all the time because it's Murica.