100% agreed. Feels more like a strawman than an anthology show.
Poll Is continuity important?
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100% agreed. Feels more like a strawman than an anthology show.
What was I saying about reductio ad absurdum arguments before?
One more time, there's a sane middle ground between "anything goes!" and "ohmigod, it's not 100% consistent with three lines of dialogue from that one episode 50-plus years ago!"
Nobody is suggesting that everything should change every episode, nor is that remotely close to anything actually being done on Star Trek today.
It doesn't really surprise me. The kind of fans who'd join the Trek BBS are obviously more into this stuff than someone who just watches Trek casually. Remember, most people just watch the show and that's the end of it. This place is the fringe, not the mainstream. (Not a criticism, just a statement of fact.)
And that enthusiasm (or obsession) can come out in lots of different ways, from continuity debates, to creating timelines, to writing fan fiction, to creating cosplay, to figuring out precise deck plans for the Starship Enterprise. Some people even go pro with their fandom, by writing tie-in novels like @Greg Cox, or creating digital ships for CBS/Paramount like @Donny. It all comes out of the same impulse: We want more of the thing we love, and we want to feel like we're a part of it in some way.
Indeed, I have created my own:
"Star Trek New TV Series Universe Writers Guide / Technical Rules Manual" that is literally 700+ pages long and have detailed documents, diagrams, guides, and countless other document files to support all the changes to the Star Trek Universe I want to see or clarifications for a TV series set @ the start of the 26th century on Earth Date 2501/01-01 AD
Damn, okay. At that point I'm thinking maybe you should find-and-replace all the trademarked Star Trek terms in your document and start writing your own novel series based on it.
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Indeed. KamenRiderBlade and Deks have a technical acumen that would do well outside of Trek.
1965 or 1966. Gene Roddenberry has been working for hours on one of his pilot scripts. It's late, he is tired, so he goes to sleep.
That night, he dreams that it's the year 2022, and people are still fanatically arguing about some random details he put in one of those versions, just because they sounded good to him when he thought of them, and how they square with some other minute details found in scripts written by others decades later. Or about why character X used exactly those words (and no nearly equivalent synonyms), in that specific order.
The next morning, on waking up, his first thought is that perhaps he really should cut down a bit on alcohol & certain other substances....
That night, he dreams that it's the year 2022, and people are still fanatically arguing about some random details he put in one of those versions, just because they sounded good to him when he thought of them, and how they square with some other minute details found in scripts written by others decades later. Or about why character X used exactly those words (and no nearly equivalent synonyms), in that specific order.
The next morning, on waking up, his first thought is that perhaps he really should cut down a bit on alcohol & certain other substances....
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Which makes sense until it becomes exclusionary, which sticks out to me more. I know a lot of the fan activities done are coming from a place of wanting more but it comes across as quite protectionist.
I don't care to. I'd rather just apply it to Star Trek and work with the creative staff as a BTS guy on continuity and in universe technical lore. I'm a Trekkie at heart.
Just breaks my heart though.
It'd break my heart even more if I had to use it outside of Star Trek.Just breaks my heart though.
I'm that much of a Trekkie.
Fair point, I guess.
Still would be an incredible work and one that I miss even though it doesn't exist. I'm that much of a fan of your technical skill.
Thank You!
But I would be happier if I could be a part of the Star Trek Technical writing staff and help iron out their Technical In-Universe Lore issues.
Well, he only wrote the one. WNMHGB and TAS' "Beyond the Farthest Star" were both written by Samuel L. Peeples.
But if you mean "The Omega Glory"... Yeah, Gene should've put that one through another draft on his typewriter.
Or a shredderWell, he only wrote the one. WNMHGB and TAS' "Beyond the Farthest Star" were both written by Samuel L. Peeples.
But if you mean "The Omega Glory"... Yeah, Gene should've put that one through another draft on his typewriter.
"The Omega Glory" is one of those episodes that I think is pretty good until it goes hideously off the rails in the last act. VOY's "Threshold" is another.
I'll work on the changedotorg petition.
I don't think that's a job.
Then they should create one, similar to how they have that position for Star Wars.I don't think that's a job.
Given how large & important Star Trek is, at least it should be no less as important in size or relevance compared to Star Wars, I'm surprised there isn't one.