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People are wasting time in Star Trek all the time, more so in the Next Generation spinoffs than in the Original Series. DS9 probably showed the most time wastin
by mhurron 15y ago
People are wasting time in Star Trek all the time, more so in the Next Generation spinoffs than in the Original Series. DS9 probably showed the most time wasting of them all.
Quarks Bar? Those aren't business meetings. Those holodeck/holosuite episodes? They weren't there for training. Picard is always reading or trying to read a book, Sisco does baseball and Janeway paints and whatnot with Da Vinci.
Its just that it is also a TV series. It's just not interesting watching Keiko tweet that O'Brien's favorite food is horribly unhealthy and she hates eating it.
Keeping the show interesting is basically the most important thing for the writers, so its probably best not too look too deeply at what is portrayed as if it is some realistic situation.
- philwelch 15y ago> Quarks Bar? Those aren't business meetings. It's even full of people gambling, and the gambling tables are run by busty women in cleavagey outfits. And in the first few seasons, it's pretty obvious that the holosuites are for porn.
- davidw 15y ago> Its just that it is also a TV series. It's just not interesting watching Keiko tweet that O'Brien's favorite food is horribly unhealthy and she hates eating it. Right. No one wants the cameras to follow Kirk as he gets a worried look on his face, sticks a copy of Space Sports Illustrated under his arm and runs for the head after eating a bad batch of Rigelian Sarklon worms. Presumably, however, it does happen from time to time.
- brudgers 15y ago>"DS9 probably showed the most time wasting of them all." Well, the theme was "To boldly stay where no person has stayed before," after all.
- laconian 15y agoSounds like you stopped midway through Season 1!
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- jlarocco 15y agoThe first season of TOS had an episode, "Shore Leave," where the Enterprise makes a stop over at a planet for the sole purpose of wasting time and relaxing. I think you're right, though. It's not so much that there's no time wasting, but the show was about the adventures of the Enterprise and its crew. For all we know the crew in TOS spent 99% of the time screwing around, and the show was about the 1% of the time they spent working.
- philwelch 15y agoThe only reason "Shore Leave" was even an episode is because something went very awry on the shore leave planet and action and adventure ensued! Which goes to show--really, the reason they don't show anyone goofing off on Star Trek is because goofing off isn't very entertaining to watch and because it's an action-adventure show about action and adventure, and not a show about people's everyday lives. At least by DS9 they realized it would be entertaining to show the crew trying to get into each other's pants.
- gaius 15y agoIt's like James Bond. You see in the movies the one week every couple of years where he's actually being a spy. The rest of the time he sits at a desk at MI6 HQ doing paperwork.