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Originally Posted by Nehkara
I have a feeling you don't belong in this thread... but it is just a feeling.
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The power of trek is in the storytelling and triumvirate of characters who are both friends and comrades standing up against kobayashi maru odds. Not the continuity of silly Trek cliche storylines or the technobabble that Trekkies so hold dear.
The space opera is about how human tenacity manages to eke out moral victory on the dangerous frontiers of space...ala Kirk Diplomacy.
Not how an engineer re-energizes the warp coils with a trans-poly-duotronic inhibitor while number 1 is busy saving the ship on the Holodeck and everybody beams out just in time to avoid the massive polarizing time dilation effect just in time for the Captain to make a speech about the Prime Directive as they send an inverted tachyon beam from the main deflector to just reset the show in the end.
Berman and Brannon Braga destroyed the Trek franchise with recycled plots, recycled technology, and recycled cliches. Enterprise was just Voyager in sheep's clothing. All the things they claimed about starting anew were quickly wiped away in 3 episodes. The phase-pistols suddenly became phasers by the end of the first episode. The shields were renamed "polarize the hull plating". Even the much vaunted lack of transporting to save the day was completely obliterated as they introduced the transporter within 3 episodes. Then Archer goes onto make the lamest speech in history "one day, there will be a directive, a Prime directive...". Trek should not be about name-dropping cliches, fan-service (via steamy decontamination) or technobabble deux ex-machinas.
I'm all for an absolute re-boot if neccessary to clean Trek of the dead waste that litters every incarnation of it touched by Berman and Braga. Fortuantely for DS9, Berman abandoned that to Ira Stephen Behr to work on Voyager so Behr had a clean slate to do whatever he wanted to do with DS9 and he created a good product. The first good product in years.
If you watch the original Trek, you see what a different beast it actually it. It has high aims and the solutions are human ones, not technologically based. As Gene Roddenberry originally pitched it, it was "Horatio Hornblower in Space". Now if you don't know what Horatio Hornblower is, I suggest you go track down some of the books about Hornblower or check out the great A&E miniseries staring Ioen Gruffuld (Mr. Fantastic from F4). In many ways, Master and Commander with Russel Crowe was based on literature of the same vein and era as Horatio Hornblower.
In fact, if you look at Master and Commander, it's very much Star Trek with Crowe and Bellamy basically taking on the Kirk and Spock roles. Star Trek needs to aim for that kind of story and legacy. Not the crap Paramount has put out with Berman at the helm for years.