Contest: ENTER SF&F Avatar Contest: Post Humanism

[Orac]

Spoiler: Redacted

Welcome to the all new SF&F Avatar Contest!

This weeks theme is Post Humanism

Growing up watching Star Trek and its spin-offs in the 2oth century, the secular humanistic values had a profound influence on the development of my own values. Theses values were barely present in the 2009 film based on Star Trek or in the innumerable subsequent spin-offs of the current decade, with the occasional exception.

Avatars should feature images from 21st century Star Trek spin-off's where the humanistic values which were the core of the original Star Trek and it's 20th century spin-offs have largely been abandoned for spectacular violence and long-form storytelling.

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[Nerys Myk]

Whut???

 

[Orac]

Spoiler: Redacted

There are many episodes from the following examples that would fit the theme:

Star Trek Enterprise Season 3
Star Trek Discovery
Star Trek Picard
Star Trek Lower Decks

I didn't think this would be too esoteric for a Star Trek forum. Was I wrong?

 

[JD]

I thought we usually did non-Trek stuff in here since it was the non-Trek general SFF forum?

 

[Avro Arrow]

There are many episodes from the following examples that would fit the theme:

Star Trek Enterprise Season 3
Star Trek Discovery
Star Trek Picard
Star Trek Lower Decks

I didn't think this would be too esoteric for a Star Trek forum. Was I wrong?

I don't know about anyone else, but I was just confused since I thought modern Trek was still pretty secular humanist? (And I'm not sure how humanist values are incompatible with "long form storytelling"...)

Are you just looking for any images from Star Trek made after the turn of the century, then? That would be pretty easy.

I thought we usually did non-Trek stuff in here since it was the non-Trek general SFF forum?

We've done Trek-specific themes before; I believe I did a 50th-anniversary contest back in 2016? There might still be show-specific Trek contests in some of the individual show forums (I don't know, I don't visit the forums for the older shows much anymore) but we don't have any other generic all-Trek avatar contest going on anywhere else that I'm aware of, so I would think having a Trek-themed one in SF&F should be fine?

 

[Orac]

Spoiler: Redacted

How about this then..

This weeks theme is Star Trek The Next Next Generation

The original Star Trek was made by WW2 survivors, very militaristic, but with characters with humanistic values optimistic about the future.

In the 1980's and 1990's we got Star Trek made by Baby Boomers (literally the next generation), less violence, less militaristic, more humanism, but gradually becoming cynical and violent toward the end of the century.

Post 2001 we got Star Trek made by Millennials, more violence, more cynicism, slightly different social norms and only superficial humanism.

This contest should celebrate the work of the current generation. i.e. Any Star Trek made after 2001.

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[Orac]

No wait! I have a better idea.

This weeks theme is still Post Humanism

Post Humanism shall refer to fictional characters whose consciousnesses have been transferred out of their bodies in any SF&F Media including but not limited to Star Trek.

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[Kai "the spy"]

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I go get my 8 hours of sleep, and this is what I wake up to?

Now, you gonna stick with that last idea, or should I wait another hour for you to come up with another one?

Also, consciousness transferred out of body, does this include ghosts? Like, Patrick Swayze ghosts? He was outside his own body in that movie.

 

[Orac]

Yes.

 

[Orac]

1. Dr. Roger Korby in Star Trek: WALGMO?

 

[Nerys Myk]

Spoiler: Redacted

How about this then..

This weeks theme is Star Trek The Next Next Generation

The original Star Trek was made by WW2 survivors, very militaristic, but with characters with humanistic values optimistic about the future.

In the 1980's and 1990's we got Star Trek made by Baby Boomers (literally the next generation), less violence, less militaristic, more humanism, but gradually becoming cynical and violent toward the end of the century.

Post 2001 we got Star Trek made by Millennials, more violence, more cynicism, slightly different social norms and only superficial humanism.

This contest should celebrate the work of the current generation. i.e. Any Star Trek made after 2001.

Link to Revised Contest

You might want to check your dates
JJ Abrams was born in 1966
Michael Chabon was born 1963
Jenny Lumet was born in 1967
Bryan Fuller was born in 1969
Alex Kurtzman was born in 1973
Akiva Goldsman was born in 1962

They're late Boomers and Gen X, not Millennials
They're the kids who grew up watching TOS afterschool in the 70's and 80's.. The kids for whom TNG was their first new Trek show. Probably the same generations as many of us here.

Not sure about Mike McMahan, but his love for Berman Era Trek is in every cell of Lower Decks.

Not really feeling the cynicism or superficial humanism in their shows. Violence? Maybe, but not that I've noticed. And of course pushing against "social norms" is always a Star Trek thing.

But this is probably a discussion for a different thread and different forum.

 

[Avro Arrow]

Plugging into the Matrix

 

[Orac]

You might want to check your dates
JJ Abrams was born in 1966
Michael Chabon was born 1963
Jenny Lumet was born in 1967
Bryan Fuller was born in 1969
Alex Kurtzman was born in 1973
Akiva Goldsman was born in 1962

They're late Boomers and Gen X, not Millennials
They're the kids who grew up watching TOS afterschool in the 70's and 80's.. The kids for whom TNG was their first new Trek show. Probably the same generations as many of us here.

Not sure about Mike McMahan, but his love for Berman Era Trek is in every cell of Lower Decks.

Not really feeling the cynicism or superficial humanism in their shows. Violence? Maybe, but not that I've noticed. And of course pushing against "social norms" is always a Star Trek thing.

But this is probably a discussion for a different thread and different forum.

 

[Orac]

2. Dr. Dave Bowman in 2001: A Space Odyssey

3. Cdr. Will Decker in Star Trek: TMP

 

[Kai "the spy"]

#1

Jor-El AI; Man of Steel

 

[theenglish]

Robotman, The Doom Patrol

 

[auntiehill]

Supernatural, season 2, "In My Time of Dying." Dean's first death/first time being a ghost.

 

[Kai "the spy"]

#2

Anakin Skywalker Force Ghost as originally played by Sebastian Shaw; Return of the Jedi

 

[Avro Arrow]

Has anyone else heard of this movie?

Douglas Hall in The Thirteenth Floor. The creator of a VR simulation of 1937 LA is murdered, and the prime suspect ends up needing to go into the simulation to try to solve the crime. It was released in the same year as The Matrix, so of course was completely overshadowed.

And I guess at this point, I may as well stick with the theme I have going...

Kevin Flynn, Tron

 

[theenglish]

I saw the 13th Floor before the Matrix. It was a fun movie.