[Behind Liberal Lines]

THe real problem with Trek (and this is from a second generation fan) is that they've gone to the well too much, too frequently.

There was approximately twenty years between the original series and the next generation. This gave the producers and writers nearly two decades of new issues, new techonologies, etc., in our society to ponder the implications of. It also gave them time to come up with new characters who were equal to the original crew.


Since then, however, they keep cranking out one series after another, sometimes with two shoes running simultaneously.

TNG, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, Enterprise all aired original eps within the last ten years. That's a lot of sci fi to come up with during that time period.

ANd, of course, you also had the movies going on.

In addition to running out of plots, or because of it, the shows also infuriate long time fans by having glaring continuity holes.

To make matters worse, the edict from Roddenberry shortly before his death to make the future "politically correct" and conflict free meant that it is difficult to get a real level of drama going. We can't have the great sorts of debates we used to have between Kirk, Spock and McCoy because, now, every one has to get along. We can't ever have a really EVIL alien race because that would be politically incorrect (notice how, one after another, the Klingons, Ferengi, Romulans and now ever Borg, are getting sanitized and made into noble races).

Personally, I'd like to see a moratorium on anything Trek related for at least seven years.

[demosthenes the elder]

To make matters worse, the edict from Roddenberry shortly before his death to make the future "politically correct" and conflict free meant that it is difficult to get a real level of drama going. We can't have the great sorts of debates we used to have between Kirk, Spock and McCoy because, now, every one has to get along. We can't ever have a really EVIL alien race because that would be politically incorrect...

screw him, he's DEAD. What's he going to do, SUE??? I prefer a more dystopian universe... gimme B5 any day.