Less-Than-Perfect?

[Guy Gardener]

Clone Wars.

Didn't it feel better when you thought it was an empty wasteland?

I thought this was going to be a thread about the cast of Less Than Perfect Tranlocated onto a bridge of a Federation Starship.

Sarah Rue..... **Sigh**

Chuck, the show, needs to Die, and Andrea Parker is being just as wasted on Desperate Housewives... Eric Roberts. The Universe needs 300 percent less Eric Roberts.

Sarah did a Time Travel Movie for ABC Family about a week back, which means that she probably has an ABC Family Drama in the works. ABC Family gave me Greek. I like the wholesomeness of that channel and how they rut against the boundaries of that wholesomeness.

 

[The Castellan]

it sounds like pretty much everything else on TV currently. Thing I like about Trek is that these people are headed into the unknown because they want to.

Yep.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Clone Wars.

Well I am watching that, in theory (saving up this season's episodes till I have some free time.) But it's not anything like what Bry_Sinclair described, so where's the show on TV now that's just like that?

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

it sounds like pretty much everything else on TV currently. Thing I like about Trek is that these people are headed into the unknown because they want to.

Well they still would be doing that, it would still be a Starfleet mission, on whatever mission it was assigned to, it just wouldn't be brand new (think Miranda-, Excelsior- or Ambassador-Class, somthing designed for exploration but since surpassed by newer ships, though still more than capable--if set in the current 24th century Trek).

The premise would still be Trek, going boldly, but with a far more "realistic" crew. It's not about reinventing the wheel, but just making the characters easier to relate to.

 

[BillJ]

it sounds like pretty much everything else on TV currently. Thing I like about Trek is that these people are headed into the unknown because they want to.

Well they still would be doing that, it would still be a Starfleet mission, on whatever mission it was assigned to, it just wouldn't be brand new (think Miranda-, Excelsior- or Ambassador-Class, somthing designed for exploration but since surpassed by newer ships, though still more than capable--if set in the current 24th century Trek).

The premise would still be Trek, going boldly, but with a far more "realistic" crew. It's not about reinventing the wheel, but just making the characters easier to relate to.

But I've never had trouble relating to the characters to begin with...

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Relatability is a key issue for lots of people. The perfect-plasticness of the TNG characters would be a big problem for a show today.

There's a related issue with VOY - characters being artificially saved by the writers' technobabble and never being forced to confront the full implications of their situation. That destroys the sense of the character' agency - that they are courageous enough to face true danger, and clever enough to save themselves without arbitrary techno-magic. The VOY characters were relatable enough, mainly thanks to the actors, but the writing did them no favors in winning the audiences' respect.

 

[The Castellan]

it sounds like pretty much everything else on TV currently. Thing I like about Trek is that these people are headed into the unknown because they want to.

Well they still would be doing that, it would still be a Starfleet mission, on whatever mission it was assigned to, it just wouldn't be brand new (think Miranda-, Excelsior- or Ambassador-Class, somthing designed for exploration but since surpassed by newer ships, though still more than capable--if set in the current 24th century Trek).

The premise would still be Trek, going boldly, but with a far more "realistic" crew. It's not about reinventing the wheel, but just making the characters easier to relate to.

But I've never had trouble relating to the characters to begin with...

Same here, related to them quite well.