Star Trek anyone?
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Star Trek anyone?
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Yeah the first Star Trek book I read was the one about Spocks son way back in time on the Ice Age/Time Portal planet, and his son was changing the timeline because of conquering and such, and I remember that striking me as being so awesome as a teenager at the time it came out. I read quite a few of those books for some time afterwards, but I eventually tired of them as they started seeming to me at the time as being the same ole story or maybe I was just sick of reading Star Trek books. Same thing happened with me back in the day with the Post Timothy Zahn Star Wars books. After a few short years of that I grew sick of the Space (Soap Opera more like it) of the lives of Luke and Friends and their offspring. Also, Kevin J. Anderson killed it for me in an awful way, that and the books I was reading in the Star Wars Universe seemed to me, at the time, to be growing worse and worse with time (Kevin J. Anderson growing to be the worst). I mean, don't get me wrong he had great ideas but he crammed them altogether and I just didn't like what he was doing thereMandiKenendy wrote:I love Star Trek. I used to read the Deep Space Nine Series of books and the Voyager ones! I loved the autobiography series Kate Mulgrew, the producer, wrote.
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And now when its on I find myself watching it. If I put it on around the flatmates Im told to turn it over! So its my guilty pleasure when Im in alone. bwhaha!
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My favorite episode of Next Generation is the one where Deanna Troi takes the test for command and has to give an order that will save the ship, but likely cause the death of the engineer in order to pass the test simulation. Loved DS9, all of it, and everything about it. Was unable to watch all of Voyager at the time, but own a copy and will get to it one day, hopefully. I do like the series, though. After that, seems like they lost it.
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But I liked parts of Voyager. I didn't really care for Chekotay, but I really liked the Doctor and Seven of Nine when she showed up. In my mind it was the last of the Treks to keep the tradition alive, though it did suffer from a lack of direction for some of it, because these were events happening far away that they couldn't really revisit. Still, there were many good episodes.
I can't stand the trend in more modern science fiction shows to be so "gritty" and down on the future. I really admire Star Trek for pushing the idea that humanity could get better in the future, could overcome some of its racism, its sexism, its intolerance. I think it's a really sad thing that the new movies were designed for "modern movie audiences" (according to the director). They don't bother trying to envision humanity as moved beyond its intolerance. Instead the humanity shown in the movies is more close-minded and violent. The shows were all about exploration and finding common grounds with the alien Other, but now they're all about killing the bad guy. Sad to me how it all played out.
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