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Star Trek: Discovery to ditch a long frustrating Trek rule
Entertainment Weekly ^ | June 23, 2017 | James Hibberd

Posted on 06/23/2017 12:02:47 PM PDT by EveningStar

Star Trek: Discovery is shedding a creative restriction that’s long frustrated top writers on previous shows in the franchise.

Showrunners Aaron Harberts and Gretchen J. Berg — working from a creative roadmap laid out by executive producer Bryan Fuller — are delivering a Trek saga that gets rid of one the franchise’s decades-old limitations in an effort to evolve the series.

As part of Trek creator Gene Roddenberry’s utopian vision of the future (and one that Trek franchise executive producer Rick Berman carried on after Roddenberry’s death in 1991), writers on Trek shows were urged to avoid having Starfleet crew members in significant conflict with one another (unless a crew member is, say, possessed by an alien force), or from being shown in any seriously negative way.

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To: Snickering Hound
Can't the rule be 'No more Space Hippies'?

The "Space Hippie" playing that instrument ("Adam") is Charles Napier in one of his earliest roles. He later went on to play the leader of "The Good Ole Boys" in "The Blues Brothers."

41 posted on 06/23/2017 1:08:15 PM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: EveningStar

In Roddenberry’s utopian future, human weaknesses were engineered out. So people would risk their lives to travel in space with NO PAY. They all worked for the common good of mankind with no serious disagreements.


42 posted on 06/23/2017 1:10:26 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Snickering Hound

Without space hippies we would never get to see Spock jam.


43 posted on 06/23/2017 1:14:18 PM PDT by freefdny
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To: EveningStar

There’s a link on that page that takes you to one of those
“what they look like now” pages. It’s got LOTS of the ST franchise acting staff. It essentially lists their filmography. Picardo, Delancie, and Meany also had significant roles in the Stargate and/or Stargate:Atlantis series. None of them mention that. Can’t help but wonder why!

Speaking of Picardo, when we watch reruns of Voyager, if it’s an all-doctor-all-the-time episode, we skip it!


44 posted on 06/23/2017 1:18:00 PM PDT by FrogMom (The education system: The ongoing fundamental transformation!)
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To: VanDeKoik

I really miss the Ferengi and their Rules of Acquisition.
How much cold pressed latinum to bring them back?


45 posted on 06/23/2017 1:18:34 PM PDT by RitchieAprile
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To: RitchieAprile

need a movie how the deep space stations came into being.


46 posted on 06/23/2017 1:22:29 PM PDT by morphing libertarian
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To: escapefromboston
I always liked that the starfleet crew generally acted fairly professionally with each other and the show avoided some of the boring soap opera antics of other similar shows.

Like 24? Los Angeles has just been nuked and CTU employees are bickering about their desk chairs being left at the wrong height after being borrowed, or some other similar nonsense. Jack should have kneecapped the writers of the B-storyline.

47 posted on 06/23/2017 1:31:14 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity - Pres. Eisenhower)
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To: Red Badger
Fascinating. Image and video hosting by TinyPic But illogical. The number one rule was to not interfere on planets with feline life.
48 posted on 06/23/2017 1:52:30 PM PDT by tumblindice ("Fight for your country." Hector)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Yeah


49 posted on 06/23/2017 2:19:16 PM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: Snickering Hound

i love that episode. Yay brother!


50 posted on 06/23/2017 2:19:22 PM PDT by Mount Athos (A Giant luxury mega-mansion for Gore, a Government Green EcoShack made of poo for you)
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To: Skywise

Have you ever seen the pilot episode of Lost in Space?

Much more serious with Dr. Smith as a villain who was programming the robot to destroy the Jupiter 2 after liftoff.

But Smith got trapped on board and the hilarity ensured


51 posted on 06/23/2017 2:28:23 PM PDT by chaosagent (Remember, no matter how you slice it, forbidden fruit still tastes the sweetest!)
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To: Leaning Right
Dr. Smith talking to the Robot on Lost in Space.

"Clattering collection of cogs and camshafts." One of my favorites.

"Ohhhhh, the pain! The pain!"

52 posted on 06/23/2017 2:49:28 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: EveningStar

I liked the rule that guest stars had to be currently popular and in most cases exceptionally attractive.

Joan Collins - “The City on the Edge of Forever”
Lee Meriwether - “That Which Survives” (also Catwoman on the 1960s Batman)
Julie Newmar - “Friday’s Child” (another Catwoman on the 1960s Batman)
Yvonne Craig - “Whom Gods Destroy” (Batgirl on the 1960s Batman)
Ricardo Montalban - “Space Seed”
Frank Gorshin - “Let That Be Your Last Battlefield” (Riddler on the 1960s Batman)
Teri Garr - “Assignment: Earth”

I also liked the rule that the crew acted professionally, without all the soap opera nonsense. But the guest stars were a bigger deal to a young male viewer (although I would not have stuck with the series just to see a couple of my favorite Catwoman actresses and Batgirl, at least not quite as long).


53 posted on 06/23/2017 3:11:25 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: EveningStar

Will they show the Crew waling into the Unisex Unialien Bathroom? All those Star Trek themed Shows and I’ve never seen a Bathroom on the Enterprise.

I wonder what the little Placard on the Doors will look like.

Do Aliens use a Bidet?


54 posted on 06/23/2017 3:20:06 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative ( THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: lee martell

Watched some old episodes of TNG and Voyager several months ago. The blatant P.C. shocked me!!

Loved the shows when they first came out,
(except the episode where the guy who played Major Charles Emerson Winchester III on MASH had to euthanized because he turned 60 and then was considered a burden for the younger generations (That really was an episode!!!).

I will never watch it again.


55 posted on 06/23/2017 3:34:59 PM PDT by lizma2
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To: Skywise

“Why Dr.Smith was never shot”

ROFL! He should have been shot for being so annoying! And his voice!


56 posted on 06/23/2017 3:37:48 PM PDT by lizma2
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To: Skywise

“Why Dr.Smith was never shot”

ROFL! He should have been shot for being so annoying! And his voice!


57 posted on 06/23/2017 3:37:51 PM PDT by lizma2
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To: Mount Athos
i love that episode. Yay brother!

Had a happy ending. Those pretentious dirty hippies that weren't dead were burned with acid.

Ditto with 'Easy Rider'.

58 posted on 06/23/2017 3:42:43 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: Williams

McCoy vs Spock arguing.
Now I guess they will have the actors in fist fights.


59 posted on 06/23/2017 4:28:41 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: EveningStar

Which means it will be just like all the other crap on TV: chock full of whiny, self-absorbed retards who think the pinnacle of human existence boils down to who they are having sex with today.


60 posted on 06/23/2017 4:39:38 PM PDT by hopespringseternal
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