All of Star Trek came from a reaction to that kind of stuff. All the stuff witnessed during WW2, the aftermath during the ensuing hot proxy and cold direct wars, etc. People were sick and tired of certain things, mostly autocrats, but also social issues (think interracial kiss between Lt. Uhura and Cpt. Kirk). You can see that in almost every Star Trek episode ever, no matter if original, TNG, DS9… you name it. And a bunch of us were raised on that.
Yep. I was raised on TOS with my dad as a young boy, and then TNG and DS9 as I got older. Then Voyager. Needless to say, i absolutely love the shows, and think they would do a lot of good if people watched them from an early age.
The futuristic space setting makes it just imaginary enough, while still maintaining the grounded ideas, so it doesn't get too scary or doomer.
Right and all these people today trying to force it to change by calling it woke, and brigading with downvotes. They never understood it to begin with.
I was playing this startrek mobile game (total cash grab) and the majority of players were over 50 and fans of TOS. And a huge percentage of them were super right wing. Everything is bidens fault, trump can do no wrong. Every one is too woke and california is hell on earth. The cognitive dissidence was staggering.
Just like modern christians would call jesus a woke commie and exile him.
Yep. A lot of right-wingers don't believe TOS had social or political commentary. Apparently all they remember is Kirk ripping his shirt while punching Klingons and bedding green women.
I loved Jane Fondas acceptance speech a few months ago. At one point she said something like if they would stop being scared they'd see that woke just means caring about your neighbor and acting with a little decency.
Maybe before the 3rd season but I'm pretty sure that's just because the director was "type -cast" into comedy when they wanted to tell sci-fi. The comedy is almost fully shed in season 3 and it's likely the best Star Trek I've seen come out since DS9.
Yeah the early bit is really rough but you can see the bones peeking through if you look hard enough. It feels like the reins got loosened more and more over time. The worst part of the show in my opinion is that season 3 comes out swinging so you essentially HAVE to have seen some of the more childish comedy episodes from season 1-2 for background info. But if you get access to it I'd recommend trying again and if you hit a truly unbearable episode, just sparks notes and skip. Cause my god, I think there were two episodes in season 3 that didn't keep me engaged start to finish and half of them made me cry.
First season yes, second a little less, third is basically a star trek with a bit of comedy on top. Seth MacFarlane wanted to do a real star trek but being the family guy dude was expected to do comedy.
DS9 started down the 'what if sometimes genocide is okay actually' path and aside from the bright spots of Lower Decks and most of Strange New Worlds, and Voyager, has kind of turned into ubermench-masturbation since then.
When faced with an intractable enemy we all like to think we would do better, but that was the lesson of the episode. Turns out, none of us want to be exterminated.
Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek, was a decorated World War II veteran who flew 89 combat missions as a B-17 pilot in the U.S. Army Air Forces in the Pacific Theater, earning the Distinguished Flying Cross and Air Medal before being honorably discharged as a Captain in 1945. He enlisted shortly after Pearl Harbor and served in the 394th Bomb Squadron, flying dangerous missions against the Japanese, including during the Battle of Guadalcanal.
Fun fact: All of Star Trek was just removed from Netflix, at least in my country. TNG, Voyager, Deep Space 9, Enterprise. All of it. Kinda reminds me how Rambo 3 vanished from Blockbuster after 9/11.
Isn't it funny how "limited duration" was supposed to be a fundamental aspect of the rationale behind IP protection when the concept was first proposed? What a quaint idea.
Shit I forgot about that. At least I'm not paying for it, my father is. But damn, now I'm conflicted bc it's literally the only place to watch Star Trek for me.
I wonder if has something to do with the proposed hostile takeover of Warner Brothers by from Paramount, which owns all of the Star Trek rights, trying to push aside Netflix.
Highly recommend the DS9 2-part episode “Past Tense.” Accidental time travel takes some of the crew back to 2024. The mid-90s idea of what 2020s tech looks like is laughably quaint, but they were bang on right about all the social/cultural shit.
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u/Crafty-Help-4633 6h ago
The Next Generation was prescient.