Her comments concern me. I know we can’t expect the actors to be familiar with much or any Trek, but it’s still sad to hear a voice of authority that doesn’t know much. On the subject of serialization, the first show that comes to mind is Voyager,(?) then DS9 to a lesser degree(?!). Yet DS9 was intrinsically THE show to rely on continuity, consequence, and increasingly serialized episodes, to the extent that the last dozen or so eps were essentially one arc. Having only beat that number by a few eps, (with STD building on other Trek shows, rather than many years of its own existence), DS9 blows STD out of the water in this (and every other) category. Also, side note, the unmentioned Enterprise had a great big 22 ep arc (season 3),followed by a season of smaller arcs, setting a record and standard many years back, and telling a heck of a cool story in the process.
Much more alarming is the implication that disliking or criticizing STD is the same thing as being inflexible, intolerant, homophobic, racist, behind the times, or otherwise at fault. I have many serious criticisms in regard to the quality and content and creative decisions behind STD, and I don’t believe for a second that the root of my dissapointment has to do with my own failings and morally flawed perspective. Wanting a better show doesn’t make me closed minded.
I’m amazed that season one was THE depiction of THE Klingon war, and we barely saw it. I’m deeply frustrated that they took an idea as goofy as the mirror universe, defined by the oldest evil twin cliche there is, and based the show around it, and then used it as a convenient way to unceremoniously kill off their best character/actor/hero of the war. And yes, I do feel my tolerance tested when I think the writers are more concerned with a pro gay agenda than a great Star Trek story, not because they cant coexist, but because quality has to come before agenda, or you end up with the current state of Star Wars: broken and insulting. Anybody agree? Anybody actually read this? Cheers!
