Pretty much built in.Dude,do you even Star Trek? "Whack over the head" is a feature, not a bug.
Spoilers Strange New Worlds 1x01 - "Strange New Worlds"
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I don't know. The Prime Directive is a UFP thing, I think, not a Starfleet directive?
That's ok. It became that in 1988.
True, though Trek has usually made those points through alegories rather than direct references.
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Sometimes, instead of a parable, you just need a big stick.
Yeah...no.Adding a female version of Dr. McCoy <> TNG becoming TOS - not by a LONG SHOT.
Actually TOS's use of more subtle allegories was deliberately designed to evade network censors. Thus Trek's history of talking about issues sideways by using aliens and not spelling it out.Dude,do you even Star Trek? "Whack over the head" is a feature, not a bug.
Who says it's the same Kyle?
Two guys on the Enterprise serving as transporter chiefs seems a stretch...!
No, it's told didactic stories - but not directly mired itself in current events.
Wasn't that the opposite of what was being argued in the episode?
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Of course it's the same Kyle. Kyle was never more than a name. It's like saying Shakespeare's plays were written by some other guy named Shakespeare, not Shakespeare.
Okay, it's not really like that.
Definitely, heavy-handed social commentary is a Trek feature and not a bug. The show's allegory - or symbolism, or whatever - was rarely subtle. And now, there's no reason to hide behind "we're cleverly evading the censor."
Okay, it's not really like that.
Definitely, heavy-handed social commentary is a Trek feature and not a bug. The show's allegory - or symbolism, or whatever - was rarely subtle. And now, there's no reason to hide behind "we're cleverly evading the censor."
And MASH was all about about the Korean conflict while directly commenting on Vietnam.
It's not as subtle as Trek like to think that it is sometimes.
As P+ has done with all the other new Trek series, it appears that on Thurs 5/12 when Episode 2 drops, Episode 1 will be available to watch for free on Youtube (probably region locked to the U.S.):
I'm going to play my "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield" card again.
Wait until people find out that Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood had a learning agenda.
Hey, at least Pulaski had a personality.
My point is that TNG became great trek by the second season.
I didn't say Trek was subtle. I said it usually did its thing through alegories, not direct references. I'm just highlighting a difference with SNW's Jan6 shots.
It was still an allegory.
You can also toss in the wild card ... "A Private Little War".
The scene where Spock goes to visit Pike in his quarters made me laugh a bit because PIke was just staring directly out into that light show as Spock comes in. I was half expecting him to turn around bleary-eyed and say "welcome in.. uh.. Una?"
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Nope. Pike even said it himself. The lesson was pulled directly from "The Day The Earth Stood Still," lampshaded earlier in the episode.
These people were fighting amongst each other, and now had a weapon of great power that could not only threaten their own world, but all of the worlds around them, and Pike wasn't going to stand by while they threatened the other planets with their aggression. In short, they still had a choice to make, whether or not they wanted to choose to move forward and find "more profitable enterprises," or whether they wanted to continue to act irresponsibly and face destruction, e.g., Pike's "big stick."
Ah, thought you were still referring to t’pring.
Ah, I had something similar happening at my first programming exam!
Basically we had to implement a relatively complex program starting from some preexisting code, not beyond what we were taught but quite time consuming. The professor gave the code and told us to read everything careful. Well, I did and found that at the end of the code we had already pretty much all we needed as functions ready to be called, took only five minutes or so to call them and I was the only one to pass with full marks.
good point: how can a tradition involve an illegal practice?
No, it teaches paying attention to instructions.
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In fairness, those instructions are vague.
Not at subtle one. Like, at all.
Well, sure, if you like wiping your ass with 220-grit sandpaper.
For the record, I really don’t.
I'd kind of hope that SNW Kyle had moved on by the time TOS Kyle shows up. But it is the Enterprise, where the motto is "Crew for life".
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