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that's an interesting thought, ST:TNG without woo. Without Whoopi and the Counselor and their magic episodes it'd cut the library down like 20 or 30 percent I

by serf 7y ago

that's an interesting thought, ST:TNG without woo. Without Whoopi and the Counselor and their magic episodes it'd cut the library down like 20 or 30 percent I bet. Personally I think the ST woo started way before TNG -- but I do think that it was presented and turned into viable story the best in TNG. That said, pseudoscience/magic/woo was around and plentiful around the world during the production of the original ST too, maybe that content was also prompted by the popularity. Speaking of space-magic, if anyone reading is into space+scifi/fantasy and you enjoy Star Trek, check out UFO and Space:1999, or really any Gerry Anderson. Lots of similar topics, and its fun to determine which series did which subplot first.

logfromblammo 7y ago
At least the holodeck cut down on the amount of inexplicable time travel, theme planets, or theater-loving superbeings in order to get to the alt-history episodes. That excised a big source of random woo, and replaced it with one frequently malfunctioning plot device. If the writers of the original series wanted to set something in Victorian England, they had to invent an Victorian England planet, and then they could only use it once. The next generation writers could decide Data liked Sherlock Holmes, and have that be his recreational holodeck thing, just like Captain Picard had the hardboiled-detective noir novels. I thought the position of ship's counselor made sense, but not as a psychic bridge officer. That seat seemed more suited to a crisis negotiator type of person--the kind you'd ask to talk the aliens into powering down disruptors and releasing a hostage. Instead, it was "I sense anger and frustration, Captain." And Guinan trod perilously close to the "magical negro" trope at times, and definitely embodied the "the bartender" trope.
- ncmncm 7y ago
  TNG really had terrible, terrible writers. Any interesting idea was certain to be trivialized before it reached the soundstage.

by serf 7y ago

logfromblammo 7y ago

At least the holodeck cut down on the amount of inexplicable time travel, theme planets, or theater-loving superbeings in order to get to the alt-history episodes. That excised a big source of random woo, and replaced it with one frequently malfunctioning plot device. If the writers of the original series wanted to set something in Victorian England, they had to invent an Victorian England planet, and then they could only use it once. The next generation writers could decide Data liked Sherlock Holmes, and have that be his recreational holodeck thing, just like Captain Picard had the hardboiled-detective noir novels. I thought the position of ship's counselor made sense, but not as a psychic bridge officer. That seat seemed more suited to a crisis negotiator type of person--the kind you'd ask to talk the aliens into powering down disruptors and releasing a hostage. Instead, it was "I sense anger and frustration, Captain." And Guinan trod perilously close to the "magical negro" trope at times, and definitely embodied the "the bartender" trope.

ncmncm 7y ago
TNG really had terrible, terrible writers. Any interesting idea was certain to be trivialized before it reached the soundstage.