Star Trek Picard is not Star Trek

[DaveyNY]

I'm still trying to figure out when I actually lost my "True Trek Fan" Membership Card.

I'm pretty sure I remember being one of the first to help mimeograph and hand them out back in '72 at that little Trek-get-together in NYC.


(that weekend had a few first's for me)

 

[Nerys Myk]

I'm still trying to figure out when I actually lost my "True Trek Fan" Membership Card.

I'm pretty sure I remember being one of the first to help mimeograph and hand them out back in '72 at that little Trek-get-together in NYC.


(that weekend had a few first's for me)

Might be at the Love Instructors. Lost mine there.

 

[fireproof78]

Janeway McClane!

Yippeekayay, Mister Vulcan.

 

[DaveyNY]

Might be at the Love Instructors. Lost mine there.

Heh ... I'm pretty sure that my Trek Membership Card wasn't what I lost that particular weekend.

 

[cooleddie74]

Who's trolling this thread, Stevie Wonder?

 

[Nerys Myk]

Who's trolling this thread, Stevie Wonder?

Stevie has seen more Trek than these clowns.

 

[DaveyNY]

Stevie has seen more Trek than these clowns.

I hope you realize that you made me spit out some of my strawberry/banana Yogurt with that gem.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I hope you realize that you made me spit out some of my strawberry/banana Yogurt with that gem.

My work here is done.

 

[Danja]

People don't want Trek as it was. They want it as they imagined it was.

They pitch a fit when the show doesn't match their Head Canon.

 

[cooleddie74]

Some fans don't understand Star Trek. At all.

 

[Nerys Myk]

They pitch a fit when the show doesn't match their Head Canon.

Reminds my of a story John Byrne tells about his time on Wonder Woman. A fan was constantly castigating him about violating canon. At times vehemently. The problem was the canon being "violated" was in his head.

 

[fireproof78]

Some fans don't understand Star Trek. At all.

I think that most fans don't understand some facet of Star Trek. Probably the biggest one is the idea that Trek represents some sort of philosophy on life rather than an entertainment franchise.

 

[cooleddie74]

There's nothing like a fan lecturing me on "real" Star Trek when I've been watching it since I was barely old enough to remember seeing a television in the late 1970s. If you're going to claim that Utopian Nice Manners Trek is "real" Trek you're going to be shot down and repeatedly.

 

[Gov Kodos]

Some fans don't understand Star Trek. At all.

Hiya, Soji
Hi, JL!
You want to go for a ride?
Sure, JL
Jump in
I'm a Brophy girl in a Brophy world
Life in plastic, it's fantastic
You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere
Imagination, life is your creation...

 

[Nerys Myk]

I think that most fans don't understand some facet of Star Trek. Probably the biggest one is the idea that Trek represents some sort of philosophy on life rather than an entertainment franchise.

Which is cute when you're 13 but less so when you're 30.

 

[cooleddie74]

Even when I was a teenager I didn't buy that the Star Trek universe was an antiseptic and utopian reality free of religion and war.

 

[fireproof78]

Even when I was a teenager I didn't buy that the Star Trek universe was an antiseptic and utopian reality free of religion and war.

It was easy to recognize that if you read the books where lots of unsavory things occurred.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Even when I was a teenager I didn't buy that the Star Trek universe was an antiseptic and utopian reality free of religion and war.

I was more into Nutopia.

 

[cooleddie74]

Hell, even watching the two existing live-action series at the time you could tell it wasn't as pure and perfect as some people made it sound and Roddenberry liked to tell audiences.

 

[Danja]

I think that most fans don't understand some facet of Star Trek. Probably the biggest one is the idea that Trek represents some sort of philosophy on life rather than an entertainment franchise.

The same can be said of Star Wars, IMO.

People trash the sequels/prequels because they don't get the same "spiritual experience" that they did from A New Hope.