Hoshi Sato had a wicked sense of humor.
Let's talk about the elephant in the room, this series violates Roddenberry's vision big time
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When TNG gets rebooted, Nu Picard will actually speak French in all his scenes. The fans will bitch about it.Has TNG EVER explained how a supposedly French Captain (Picard) was SOOO British/English in EVERY other aspect?
I think it's rather dishonest to claim all that Uhura ever did in TOS was say "hailing frequencies open, sir". She had as much to do on the show as Chekov and Sulu, while Scotty has always been the intermediate between the day players and the trinity.
The very first scene we get set on the Enterprise in "The Man Trap" is Uhura teasing Spock on the bridge, and that's not the end of seeing her have fun little side scene character interactions that have little to do with the main plot.
Could she have been developed more? Yes, which is something you can say of the other supporting characters. Is her portrayal perfect? No, like every female character she's portrayed through the lens of 60s sex politics, but she at least shows herself to be more reliable on the spot than a lot of the other female characters like Rand and any throwaway yeoman of the week.
Now, enough of the Uhura disparaging.
The very first scene we get set on the Enterprise in "The Man Trap" is Uhura teasing Spock on the bridge, and that's not the end of seeing her have fun little side scene character interactions that have little to do with the main plot.
Could she have been developed more? Yes, which is something you can say of the other supporting characters. Is her portrayal perfect? No, like every female character she's portrayed through the lens of 60s sex politics, but she at least shows herself to be more reliable on the spot than a lot of the other female characters like Rand and any throwaway yeoman of the week.
Now, enough of the Uhura disparaging.
As we saw with the reaction to Into Darkness, Trek fans have a very broad concept of "remake".
Thanks, GhoulEddie and V'Gr. I'm proud of those books and glad you enjoyed them.
Honestly, of all my Trek books, those are the ones people really seem to remember, even after all these years. I'm kinda resigned to the fact that, if I ever I get hit by an asteroid, my obituary will begin with "Greg Cox, best known for his Eugenics Wars novels . . . "
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The perfect ending...to the ideal life.
Not as much as the French will.
Let's disparage Riker for being a bigger slut than Kirk.
I'd rather make fun of him for this.
We're tall folk, what can we do in a world full of little people and their tiny chairs?
I'd rather mock him for his "enlightened" sensibilities when he realizes that Troi is going to get married. Makes perfect sense to be upset.
Mocking the characters from the first season is like shooting fish in barrel. Especially Worf, my favorite.
We could also just mock had bad Starfleet Security is in general.
I'm waiting for unauthorized shuttle departures to happen in Discovery. It's about as common as Starfleet encountering omnipotent gods.
Perhaps he suffered from a recurring case of swamp-ass and just had to air things out.
It's called "Trombone Taint."
My first thought...
