Things I love about Star Trek
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Hey! This thread has dropped off the first page! We can't have that, can we? Not for a while, anyway - not so long as the "I hate" thread (which, don't get me wrong, I've also enjoyed) is still there. 
So here's something else I just thought of: I love how Star Trek creates...not just a new world, but a new universe for me. All imaginative or speculative fiction does this, of course, and the true classics, including Trek, do it wonderfully.
And that's really, I think, why I can forgive errors in canon. Yes, I know the canon matters not at all to some people, but it does to me. However, so long as this wonderful universe created for me by Gene and his successors remains recognizable, I can forgive things like disappearing brow ridges and relative ages of characters and stuff like that. It's that recognizable Trek universe that matters to me.
So here's something else I just thought of: I love how Star Trek creates...not just a new world, but a new universe for me. All imaginative or speculative fiction does this, of course, and the true classics, including Trek, do it wonderfully.
And that's really, I think, why I can forgive errors in canon. Yes, I know the canon matters not at all to some people, but it does to me. However, so long as this wonderful universe created for me by Gene and his successors remains recognizable, I can forgive things like disappearing brow ridges and relative ages of characters and stuff like that. It's that recognizable Trek universe that matters to me.
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The Dominion War is a great example of this, they had to reuse footage for all the major battles and half of the War took place in wardrooms and bunkers, but by Alkeen's Neck they manged to address the key questions and moralities of warfare.
Plus Kirk's 'risk is our business' speech. Great acting from Shat!
Plus Kirk's 'risk is our business' speech. Great acting from Shat!
Akleen. Sorry...had to point it out.
Akleen. Sorry...had to point it out.
D'oh!
I was referencing Tret Akleen, the glorious founder of the Cardassian union.
http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Tret_Akleen
Continuity.
There you go. I've said it - and without even mentioning that other "C" word, everyone seems to get so offended by.
Admitting that, is the first step on the road to acknowledging I may have a problem (with all Star Trek from this point on...)
Sure, I can laugh about this... because there's not a whole lot else I can do about what's happening this May. But come on now everybody, I know I'm not alone here. Why else would we have bought Mike & Denise Okuda's Chronology and Encyclopedias back in the '90s. Punching the air with delight throughout most of ENT Season 4. Spending all our off hours updating online timelines and editing video montages to illustrate how this universe all fits together... Unless I'm mistaken and this is all down to a rare gene found in a low percentage of the fanbase.
It just reminds me of that speech Soong gives Data in TNG "Brothers", about how about how having children leads to a sense of immortality. In way, TOS was different from just any TV show Hollywood could remake. It had progeny - TNG, DS9, VOY and ENT all descending, differing slightly exactly like real children... each with elements that would remind you of its parent. Sometimes you get the feeling that line of succession has been sacrificed, with the return of a long absent parent, with now back from the surgeon with their latest face lift...
There you go. I've said it - and without even mentioning that other "C" word, everyone seems to get so offended by.
Admitting that, is the first step on the road to acknowledging I may have a problem (with all Star Trek from this point on...)
Sure, I can laugh about this... because there's not a whole lot else I can do about what's happening this May. But come on now everybody, I know I'm not alone here. Why else would we have bought Mike & Denise Okuda's Chronology and Encyclopedias back in the '90s. Punching the air with delight throughout most of ENT Season 4. Spending all our off hours updating online timelines and editing video montages to illustrate how this universe all fits together... Unless I'm mistaken and this is all down to a rare gene found in a low percentage of the fanbase.
It just reminds me of that speech Soong gives Data in TNG "Brothers", about how about how having children leads to a sense of immortality. In way, TOS was different from just any TV show Hollywood could remake. It had progeny - TNG, DS9, VOY and ENT all descending, differing slightly exactly like real children... each with elements that would remind you of its parent. Sometimes you get the feeling that line of succession has been sacrificed, with the return of a long absent parent, with now back from the surgeon with their latest face lift...
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^ Oh, I adore continuity (and canon) - I admit it. I'll manage to see it when it's not actually there.
Depending upon the timeline and on any alternative universes that may arise.
Ah. You see where I was confused, then?
And all we really need to handle May is some generous 'squinting.'
That kind of proves my point. Why creating a new universe wasn't necessary, let alone one resulting from a supervillain's evil plot. Fans have always created their own apocrypha, accounting for any discrepancies that occur. I knew ENT was part of the same universe created in the 1960's, long before a TOS fan tookover the writing room.^ Oh, I adore continuity (and canon) - I admit it. I'll manage to see it when it's not actually there.
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I must admit to liking some of the time travel eps (if properly done) as someone who is very interested in history I find some of the 'what ifs' raised in those episodes to be very intriguing. Heck I'm looking forward to the Abamsverse and I like the Mirror universe!
(Runs away and hides)
(Runs away and hides)
Me, too. I like its metaphysical navel-gazing, too. I don't read hard sf, so for me there isn't really any other place to discuss all those pesky questions that plague our existential existence: does a difference that makes no difference really a difference? What if you travelled so far you met yourself? Do the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few? Would you sacrifice yourself to change reality, knowing you were already dead in that reality? What is it to be immortal?
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