Pardon me for asking, but what business is that? (My sarcastic voice IS my voice and it's worse in print so know this is an honest and curious question.)In the business, we call that a "Positive Reframe"...
What story elements would you remove or just forget exist from canon?
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It's not nihilistic. Nihilism is the denial that meaning exists or that anything means anything or holds any value, ever. A ball is not a ball, it's just a round thing.
Rather, it is existentialist: the assertion that human beings create meaning through an act of will, and that those meanings matter. A round thing is a ball if human beings imbue it with that purpose and use it to play games.
Nihilism and existentialism are diametric opposites. The former is ultimately life-denying and encourages systems of death and violence like fascism. Existentialism is life-affirming and encourages democratic systems.
Can't speak for Digits, but I use it in mental health counseling a lot.
Psychology
That is brilliant!
Thank you. CBT has been a lifesaver for me.Wow.
In the business, we call that a "Positive Reframe"...
Well done.
Oh... that CBT. Of course.
CBT is like a three pointed fidget spinner.
This world has too many damned acronyms...
What is CBT?
What is CBT?
Ain't THAT the truth.
"I was staying in a hotel, they had an existentialist map. It said YOU ARE HERE all over the place." - Steven Wright
That's TMDA actually. =)
I never, never got the argument of 'Oh, the US/Europe isn't burning in these episodes! Thus, the Eugenics war didn't happen!'
Like...what.
The US hasn't been attacked in any real way in any real war in over two centuries, a century and a half if you count the Civil War and even that had limited damage to the North. During OTL 90s we had the Yugoslav Wars, the Central American Crisis, the Gulf War, the Rwandan Genocide, Timor Leste, and so on. The Eugenics War was never said to touch the US, or much of Europe (though it can be fitted into Yugoslavia a bit...if you want to go down that road). And even then Hungary and Austria across the way weren't burning from it.
Seeing a nice happy US in VOY and so doesn't mean squat. Hell, parts of the US could had seen a sort of Uber 90s militia movement backed by augments and most of the US wouldn't had seen it besides newspaper tabloid splashes. If some augment broke out of Area 51 and ran up to Montana and so along the rockies (there's a neat civ iv mod that goes into this) how many of us would had been affected by that, truly? And I say that as someone who ran up Kalispell way for y2k.
Keep the Eugenics war as a 90s thing. And the Dy-100s. Trek is surely alt history, they should embrace it. Not keep trying to move it around.
Like...what.
The US hasn't been attacked in any real way in any real war in over two centuries, a century and a half if you count the Civil War and even that had limited damage to the North. During OTL 90s we had the Yugoslav Wars, the Central American Crisis, the Gulf War, the Rwandan Genocide, Timor Leste, and so on. The Eugenics War was never said to touch the US, or much of Europe (though it can be fitted into Yugoslavia a bit...if you want to go down that road). And even then Hungary and Austria across the way weren't burning from it.
Seeing a nice happy US in VOY and so doesn't mean squat. Hell, parts of the US could had seen a sort of Uber 90s militia movement backed by augments and most of the US wouldn't had seen it besides newspaper tabloid splashes. If some augment broke out of Area 51 and ran up to Montana and so along the rockies (there's a neat civ iv mod that goes into this) how many of us would had been affected by that, truly? And I say that as someone who ran up Kalispell way for y2k.
Keep the Eugenics war as a 90s thing. And the Dy-100s. Trek is surely alt history, they should embrace it. Not keep trying to move it around.
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Star Trek has always tried to be both.
It doesn't fit the tone set by TOS or TNG.
Beigeness. Definitely the beigeness. It lacks that completely offensive quality beige can bring when used in excessive amounts.
I think Star Trek would have been better served if they had set it a few more centuries into the future. The immediate benefit was they wouldn’t be struggling to cram so much future history into a relatively short period of time. There would be more time for another Earth world war or two, a long period of slower than light travel and the establishment of Earth interstellar colonies. It would have also made more sense if the “planets of hats” weren’t weird parallel developments, but simply lost colonies that took odd turns.