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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
Gene Roddenberry was responsible for Season 1 of TNG. That was his new-age vision. Go back and try to watch it. It's horrifyingly bad.
I mean, still better than Picard (which I couldn't get through even half the season of) but pretty bad. There are two good versions of Trek: post-season-2 TNG where you have a bunch of likable characters in morality plays, and DS9, which is a more serialized and character-driven version of what Trek can be. Lots of reasonable ground for disagreement about which of those is better. But it's neither Roddenberry Trek, nor is it the garbage that's been hocked as Star Trek in the last couple of decades.
You'd think there has to be a Star Trek version of Dave Filoni somewhere to hand the keys to, right?
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I'm not giving Roddenberry any credit for Star Trek after TOS, as his ideas really diverged from that original 1960s pitch which was both Horatio Hornblower in Space and Wagon Train to the Stars.
The classic TOS dynamic was conflict between the three sides of Kirk, Spock and McCoy. By the time Roddenberry was kicked out of the movie franchise and wrote the bible for TNG, he already forbade any characters from having conflicts with each other as Starfleet officers had moved past that.
Now the Kurtzman Trek shows have gone 180 degrees and we get nothing but so-called officers bickering openly on the bridge and creating "drama" fit for the WB.