My Response To Q In All Good Things

[Keith1701]

Or that instead of bouncing Picard around space/time, Q was dropping him into a pocket universe to mess with him until he could produce an answer that Q found acceptable.

To me it's a great last episode to great series.

 

[Rambo]

Most people have no incentive to do so, so they won't. They just want to live their own lives.

In another thread people are vehement that Trek should shed its overly-pretentious social engineering baggage, though. We're living in a very cynical era where it's frowned upon to make any sort of idealistic soap-box like statement and we amuse ourselves dropping one-liner insults into FB comments. In that respect, Trek is really not fashionable, which is why the Trek that's popular these days feels foreign to the older fans.

We're a very divided society in a way that is even worse then the 60s. In the 60s you had Woodstock and sit-ins. These days people just retreat to their silos and hurl insults.

But the reason All Good Things sticks out is because it had the guts to be Unfashionable and to double-down on the 60s idealism, because that's the foundation of Trek and they wanted to go out reaffirming it.

I think a lot of the hand-wringing people do over what form Trek should take in the future is because we've changed, and maybe not for the better.

I just finished watching TNG on bluray last week and it's been on my mind since. I was thinking about why the old values of trek are not so popular now.

You hit the nail on the head and wrote exactly what I have been thinking. The world we live in now is very different, people are cynical to the point I'm actually ashamed to be a part of the same species.

The amount of hatred I've seen thrown around in the last few years has really shocked me. It seems people have no interest in looking to the future and possibly making things better for everyone, all they seem to think about is what they can get now and to hell with anyone else.

I actually love the values of old trek, the idea where everyone is respectful and understanding, where people work to make themselves better and to make things better for everyone else. Why is this such an alien concept to people these days?

I grew up watching trek in all it's incarnations and I like to think it's had such a big impact on my life and made me the person I am today.

Without these values star trek would just be another typical scifi show,and I believe that's why the new movies failed for me...they never had what made trek special.