The Ferengi were supposed to be the villain in 'Next Generation' and were capitalist.
They were too laughable to be threatening so they had to come up with the Borg instead in season 2 and onward.
Posted on 05/19/2017 11:17:26 AM PDT by pabianice
New look at the new Trek incarnation. Overall it looks like a PC mess. White men are almost an after-thought. An overtly gay man on the bridge. Set a decade before TOS. Of course, CGI is many iterations ahead of what has come before and it looks gorgeous.
Said to be broadcast worldwide on pay-for-TV CBS offshoot. May explain why the characters are World Government types.
Show was due January 2017. Then summer, 2017. Now -- who knows? The original show runner quit and show has been turned-over to others. Casting reportedly still incomplete.
Like other Trek fans I am still unsure why "Enterprise" was hurriedly canceled after four seasons.
The idea that this will be a show for all nationalities and sexual choices seems doomed to me. When you try to appeal to everyone you most often appeal to no one. Trek got its strength from force of character and muscular story lines. "Discovery" looks to be its neutered grandchild.
That was Voyager.
Not sure what could be more PC than Janeway and her first officer....
if it is how described it will fail misrably
Ten bucks says they try to kill the old “No Muslims in Star Trek” joke this time out. They came close with DS9.
That is an excellent summary of Star Trek Voyager.
The constant thirsting for endless Star Wars, Star Trek, Spiderman, Superman, Batman, etc. product rehashing the same tired story lines over and over again is perplexing to me (looks Harry Potter is following the same trend, as if 8 movies weren’t enough).
I’m 2 seasons into the Breaking Bad prequel and have had enough. I will admit the Bates Motel remake was awesome, 50 years later, although it followed the same basic storyline.
Star Trek was always pseudo-Communist in its vision of the future. Star Wars and BSG were much more realistic in their take on future society.
>>That was Voyager.<<
The only voice in the galaxy (or the other galaxy) worse than hiLIARy’s cackle.
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“Star Trek was always pseudo-Communist”
I don’t know about that ... they had “credits” ... a concept of cash (just not physical money). People were free to live where they wanted. Families seemed to be able to keep things like land that was in their family for generations (Picard had a vineyard in France IIRC). People seemed to be free to choose whatever life they wanted in the Trek universe ... Communism is nothing like that as a state dictates your role based on your abilities.
If anything, I’d say Trek politics was more “Socialism w/o social engineering” or “form of government not yet identified”.
They should just call it STAR DRECK
I love Better call Saul. Do you find it derivative?
“Star Wars and BSG were much more realistic in their take on future society.”
BSG was set 150,000 years in the past. And Star Wars has ‘The Force’ which is not very realistic at all.
I'm not unsure at all!
I looked forward to it after it was announced and within the first few episodes the PC imbecile "Captain" was forced to deliver, by the queer PC writers, a diatribe about how "Space Pirates" should not be hunted down and killed mercilessly like rabid dogs because they might be 'misunderstood,' or be deprived by societies in the universe of a means to earn a living through honest work...
I switched channels and never went back ---apparently 4 years ahead of the curve!
While there original Star Trek was maybe not as overt in Socialism, they had some sort of monetary system.
That was not the case in STTNG. I can remember an episode where Picard told someone that there was no money and people worked only for the benefit of Mankind and the Alliance. Absolute Pure Utopia that cannot and will not ever exist unless you breed all traits out of humans.
The Ferengi were supposed to be the villain in 'Next Generation' and were capitalist.
They were too laughable to be threatening so they had to come up with the Borg instead in season 2 and onward.
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