Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 2x01 - "The Broken Circle"
- Thread starter Commander Richard
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Yes, please. Culture shapes media not the other way around.
SISKO: "What are you telling me, Jake?"
JAKE: "I'm saying this station was a bummer at first but now that we've lived here for a few years it's become, like, kinda righteous."
SISKO: "I really need to talk to the Doctor and the Chief about them letting you peek into some of their historical holoprograms."
JAKE: "Fifty-four-forty or Fight, Dad!"
SISKO: "Alright, get out of here before I call Security."
JAKE: "I'm saying this station was a bummer at first but now that we've lived here for a few years it's become, like, kinda righteous."
SISKO: "I really need to talk to the Doctor and the Chief about them letting you peek into some of their historical holoprograms."
JAKE: "Fifty-four-forty or Fight, Dad!"
SISKO: "Alright, get out of here before I call Security."
Might have helped.
Yes, I would watch it. Growing up in the 90s was righteous.
As if.
[*CARL SPOCK HAS ENTERED THE CHAT*]
Honestly, I prefer the lack of use of current slang in shows. For two reasons.
First, it dates the series. While the visuals and sets do that as well, I feel the language is even more in your face in terms of dating a show.
Second, we really don't know what the slang in the future is going to be. While I agree this is a rather weak argument, I think using phrases like "No presh" makes the officers seem a little less professional. And you can say phrases and relaxed language and still be professional.
First, it dates the series. While the visuals and sets do that as well, I feel the language is even more in your face in terms of dating a show.
Second, we really don't know what the slang in the future is going to be. While I agree this is a rather weak argument, I think using phrases like "No presh" makes the officers seem a little less professional. And you can say phrases and relaxed language and still be professional.
Professionals use slang and jargon all of the time. Slang can last for centuries some time outlasting the origins and meanings of the word or phrase
People would hate working at my office if professionals are not to use slang.
Solid, Jackson.
[*Jackson falls dead off the transporter pad*]
[*Jackson falls dead off the transporter pad*]
Dammit, Rand! Read the manual !!!!
Honestly, almost every movie or TV show set in the American Revolution gets Colonial accents wrong. Paul Giamatti's John Adams on HBO is one of the few that gave known Patriots English-sounding accents.
And let's not get into all the films set during the Roman Empire with all the Italian characters having British accents. Or using terms like 'Fire' to launch arrows. etc. millenia before Guns or gunpowder was known about in the region.
Tbf wasn't English in England non-rhotic at the time?
Anyways, it was nice to see the Bolians and Tellarites again. Speaking of aliens, did anyone find the interaction between Spock and the other Vulcan hilarious?
You realize that by the time ST09 came out, "Sabotage" by the Beastie Boys was no longer contemporary music, right? The Beastie Boys were on classic popular music stations by then.
Oh damn, I just realized my post was supposed to go in the s2e2 sub. How do I change that?
Also, and I say this as not a Beastie boys fan, one of my gripes with Star Trek is how contemporary popular culture is never shown. I'm pretty sure rhe future has more than Shakespeare
Also, and I say this as not a Beastie boys fan, one of my gripes with Star Trek is how contemporary popular culture is never shown. I'm pretty sure rhe future has more than Shakespeare