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You're not a terrible nerd. Star Trek just isn't that great a show. I blame Roddenberry. He sold the network 'Wagon Train to the Stars' but what he deliberat
by bdunbar 13y ago
You're not a terrible nerd. Star Trek just isn't that great a show.
I blame Roddenberry. He sold the network 'Wagon Train to the Stars' but what he deliberately _produced_ was an episodic morality play.
Good fiction and a consistent universe were just not going to happen in that kind of a deal.
- nickff 13y agoTo be fair, some of the writers did a great job of creating brilliant episodes, despite the setting. My favorites are the DS9 episodes focused on Garak, many of which remind me of Phillip K Dick short stories, in that they make the viewer question the true motives (and natures) of all the characters, combined with inconclusive facts.
- bdunbar 13y agoOh yes! More than a few episodes from all eras are quite fun to watch. But the universe, as a whole, disappoints. I don't know if Paramount would have let them, but if the writer's for TNG (and DS9, and so on) had been free to ignore the canon from the preceding shows the entire thing would be much better. "Same idea", they could have said "But we're not going to be constrained by what came before. Accept it on it's own terms."