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Star Trek went from embracing pacifism while displaying the workings of a utopian world
to embracing warmongering and displaying a miserable world.
And I will criticize Deep Space Nine for having started this.
But I guess it accurately reflects US culture
influenced by the ideology of the Soviet Union from the 20th century,
a "we can do socialism better than the Soviet Union" story,
to the China-avoiding-capitalist-embracing culture of this century,
where socialism is absent and a soft cyberpunk world embraced as inevitable.
STD and Picard look more like Mass Effect than STOS or STNG.
hard disagree on ds9. the gabriel bell storyline was kind of idealist but i still really liked it
I don't mind the Gabriel Bell storyline at all.
That's a past that the Federation has supposedly left behind.
What I mind is the well-written but ultimately still a mustache twirling saturday morning cartoon villain known as Gul Dukat, together with the sycophantic Weyoun and the Dominion lady.
The villain's chief if not only motivation? More power!
This sets up for excuses for the Federation to justify any action, like Section 31, because the villains are always one step ahead in evilness.
That doesn't challenge Roddenberry's vision which they set up to do. It dilutes it by bringing in conflict as the central part of the story, with irredeemable antagonists and beatified protagonists, where you root for the heroes to save the day and where you're told that the villains are undefeatable, yet were easily and quickly defeated, just like any other action flick.
Luckily, most episodes did not focus on the overarching story, so DS9 was still very enjoyable, but it set a precedent for further disappointment.
yeah i guess you're right about that. bashir should have done more to challenge section 31 than just run it up the flagpole and nothing else. especially after it became clear ross and the rest of high command were in on it. both sisko and bashir were key players in the bell riots and yet neither of them bothered to do anything about section 31 besides complain through proper channels? it's not disco
i hated section31 when they first did it and some part of me still does; but it did a lot to flesh out the fully automated gay space communism fairy tale.
Gay space communism fairy tale?
LUXURY gay space communism fairy tale. Lol
I mean like, why call it gay or a fairy tale?
it is a fairy tale in almos every sense of the worde and gay is from the meme; i don't know why it's here, but i like it. lol
i bet it comes from the early clothing aesthetic of tng and those were done by a gay man.
In what way is it a fairy tale? Star trek is episodic. Are there princesses in this story? Are their episodes cautionary tales like most fairy tales are?
this should answer the question