It has all had cringe inducing dialogue and moments.
What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?
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It has all had cringe inducing dialogue and moments.
The MCU has done roughly $32 billion dollars in business just in theaters.
I know, but would you classify the MCU as "Super Hero" IP or "Sci-Fi" IP?
While MCU has Sci-Fi elements, it's not a dedicated Sci-Fi franchise IMO.
It's a "Super Hero" franchise with Sci-Fi & Magical elements in it's Lore/World Building.
It is no more or less science fiction than Wars or Trek.
Fair enough.
It's science fiction to me. Sometimes has better tech development than Trek.
It is one of those things that depends on wild technology, scientific accidents and aliens.
Sounds like sci-fi to me.
Okay so we all have weird names.
Star Trek?
Yes. Their are plenty of weird names in Star Trek but it's nothing compared to weird names in Star Wars.
Fair enough
Problem with modern Trek dialogue is they relay to much on modern slang. I know Orville does as well to a degree but it's set in another universe and not one in line with the Prime timeline. It kind of takes you out of scene at times when someone talks as if they are from present day.
You would think they would either create their own Slang for that future time period, or just avoid most slang all together.
Well the Klingons got some and Romulans have verual I think it is called but I wouldn't mind seeing some new futuristic human cusswords and slurs. Just make them feel sort like they would almost work today in order to be relatable. I am sorry but Nerf Herder is just not a kind of insult that people can relate to, if we were to take one from Star Wars.
Something like
Hole face
Waste Brain
Fluck
I tend to prefer they not try to create slang. It just ends up coming off as goofy.
Battlestar Galactica (TOS) and Firefly both had excellent slang terms, which were generally obvious as to their meanings, and still able to get past the sanctimonious standards & practices people.
While I never watched it, IIRC Farscape had some good ones too.
So it can be done, but it can also sound really goofy if the actors don't sell it properly when spoken in-dialogue.
"Pink skin" and "peta'q" are the only Trek-specific terms I can think of offhand, but those are both from aliens, not humans. Usually when sci-fi tries to come up with new or future slang, it comes off pretty cringeworthy. Firefly did it well though. Farscape kinda straddled the line, but they had the excuse of it being completely alien to us.
All Trek is of its day. Some slang stands out because we know it while others don't because we're too far removed on time.
But their was a effort in the past to try and avoid some of the obvious stuff. On "TOS" nobody was saying, Far Out and Groovy. Berman era is famous for over stylized speak and that is something I don't want to come back. I just wish they had more of a middle ground. Something that feels modern but is off just a little bit since the setting is the future.
The efforts are still there and I'm sure it can balance out. But, watching older contemporary productions of Star Trek makes it stand out more to me.
They came close, at least visually, in The Way to Eden. Herbert!
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