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Originally Posted by Shazam
Doesn't help that the Federation is next to impossible to stop. Even the adapt-o-zombies lost to them.
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I think that's part of the issue with how people look at Star Trek now. The Federation in open conflict is okay. It's a fun thing to poke and prod around. That isn't what the Federation was supposed to be. It was supposed to be about finding peace. What make's Star Trek is that not everything is supposed to be about conflict. It should be about the Universe as a whole. Science. Anomalies. Political intrigue between allies and enemies. TNG had the Klingons as allies who no longer wanted or could no longer go toe-to-toe with the Federation and still managed to find ways to make them and their goings on interesting without making it as simple as the Federation vs The Empire. Even at the height of the Dominion War, DS9 was still cycling in science or intrigue.
The issue isn't that they've run out of ideas. The issue is they are focused on one type of story and it doesn't work for what Star Trek is about.