Ephraim and Dot?
What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?
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I love the feel of that Short Trek but the less I think about the completely incoherent in-episode continuity the better. They didn't even get the registry number on the refitted Enterprise right. They clearly weren't being serious or paying attention.
Those sweaters looked a great deal classier than the thin shirts that followed. I wish they had stuck with the sweaters. Is that controversial?
I have no idea. I don't know what's the general consensus on that one.
Yeah, that's it. They needed more trenchant colors.
I always liked the look but the colors, insignia and rank were too muted to really work.
To read some people's comments, my opinion that the annoying tendency of the DSC and PIC writing staff to use, reuse, overuse, abuse, and misuse the "eye scream" trope (cases in point, the maiming, murder, and possession of Leland by Control in "The Red Angel," the death of Icheb in "Stardust City Rag," and the two "eye scream" invocations in PIC episodes that I haven't gotten to yet) were gratuitous gross-outs as well as poor artistic choices (sacrificing good storytelling for the sake of expediency) is a controversial opinion.
Of course, for the sake of full disclosure, even though people I know (my own parents included) have gone through successful cataract surgery with prosthetic lens implantation, I'm so hypersensitive to "eye scream" that if I were presented with a choice between eye surgery and going blind, I'd have to think long and hard about it. And assuming I did choose the former, I'd require full-blown general anesthesia, and probably professional aftercare. And the one time an ophthalmologist tried to get IOP readings on me with a contact tonometer, he eventually gave up and took me into his pediatric treatment room, where he kept his air tonometer.
Of course, for the sake of full disclosure, even though people I know (my own parents included) have gone through successful cataract surgery with prosthetic lens implantation, I'm so hypersensitive to "eye scream" that if I were presented with a choice between eye surgery and going blind, I'd have to think long and hard about it. And assuming I did choose the former, I'd require full-blown general anesthesia, and probably professional aftercare. And the one time an ophthalmologist tried to get IOP readings on me with a contact tonometer, he eventually gave up and took me into his pediatric treatment room, where he kept his air tonometer.
I believe it started a very long time ago with Dali's "Un Chien Andalou"... Needless to say that it was a lot more artistic not to mention original back then.
I think Star Trek's "optimistic future for humanity" is really just gratuitous human chauvinism most of the time. Among an infinite number of intelligent species, humans are uniquely moral/virtuous, uniquely curious, uniquely generous, etc, etc, etc.
I love the Q episodes, but Q is one of the worst offenders, just by being an omnipotent entity (one of many throughout the franchise) that finds humans more interesting than any other species that's ever existed anywhere because....????
I love the Q episodes, but Q is one of the worst offenders, just by being an omnipotent entity (one of many throughout the franchise) that finds humans more interesting than any other species that's ever existed anywhere because....????
As I recall, doesn't Azetbur lampshade this in TUC?
Alas, since our supply of actors is rather limited to one species, it's rather difficult to portray non-humanoid sentients. Books and TAS have a leg (or other analogous limb) up on this.
Then, too, it seems like ENT made a point of humans having a talent for making new friends, and for serving as interspecies peacemakers. And for going out of our way to do both.
Yes, she does, quite well.
I think this is an important detail to remember. This is still a show written by humans and for humans and we are limited in terms of what can be demonstrated. Aliens are difficult to create, and difficult to write in a way that feels both familiar and alien at the same time.
Yes, and in a scene that was removed from the final cut, Scotty makes some racist remarks about her.
You write to your audience. First lesson any writer learns. Second lesson, you are your most important audience.
And in many cases your only one...
Yes. Alan Dean Foster's Humanx Commonwealth novels succeed (and succeed brilliantly) with the insectoid Thranx (especially in the books about how they came to become Humanity's greatest friends and allies). But it's rather unlikely that any of us will live to see a Humanx Commonwealth movie, much less a Humanx Commonwealth TV series, even with the latest advances in CGI, simply because of the difficulty in depicting sentient arthropods with four trulegs, two foothands, and two truhands.
I don't know if "Klingon bitch" qualifies as racist per se but yeah, he does have unflattering words for her in a scene that's on the DVD and other home video editions of the film.
Trek universe shows humans as diverse. We are the only species not named after our planet, we don't call ourselves Earthers, we don't even have a language named after our planet, we don't speak 'Earth', and we don't have global religion, the same hairstyle and wear the same style of clothes.
Unlike the Vulcans, Klingons, Andorians, Risians, Romulans etc
The world building was limited, they needed a bigger TV budget lol
They didn't even establish that the Romulan language had more than one dialect until Star Trek 2009.
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