Count Dushku said:I need to make a comment before I log back out for a real long time.
The reason why Star Trek began to suck began with TNG. Some hack job liberal writers got together and began to spew their evangelical message with all the fervor of fundamentalists. Sure, Rick Berman has his share of the blame, but the writers were the ones who ultimately burned the ship. It got to be too preachy.
Wow, "liberal", "evangelical message", "fervor of fundamentalists", sounds like somebody has been picking up a lot of political jargon off the news, but yet fails to understand what any of it means. I guess I get what you are trying to say, but barely with what a dizzying and contradictory way in which you said it.
I don't give a damn if most of the Trekkers don't like the new Star Trek. Go watch your TNG, you who were in your twenties and thirties when TNG came on. Give those of us who grew up with Star Trek from a young age something cool again.
That is all.
Lost you at the "you who were in your twenties and thirties". Which Trek were you at a young age when it came out? Star Trek came out long before I was born, let alone before I was at a young age. I was at a young age when TNG came out, and I thought it was pretty cool, not so much when I was at a young age, I didn't really understand it, but when I got older I began to appreciate it. I liked the preachiness of it, I always found it amusing (for very much the same reason John Lennon's Imagine is one of my all time favorite songs, it is so idealistic and idiotic that I cannot help but love the hell out of it).
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Star Trek is the hippies wildest dreams come true. Hippies have beautiful dreams, but unfortunately dreaming is the only damn thing they do. If hippies really got their way, we would be far from having the ability to explore space in the futuristic equivalent of a luxery liner. Earth would be a stupid insignificant planet that the prime directives of other alien races would forbid them of screwing around with. It would be a planet with no infatructure, just a bunch of people living around the globe in tents, getting high and getting laid while enjoying endless Woodstock style concerts and dying of starvation and diseases transmitted through sex and needles, all the while wishing they had something to go and protest. Food replicators would be their welfare, keeping them alive to continue living their pointless lives until the inevitable day they ODed and died. Woooooooohoooooo, the final frontier man! These are the voyages! Boldly going where almost every other man in this room has gone at least a couple of times this evening already. Live long and prosper! And pass me the bong! Woooohooooo!
Star Trek without hippies and liberal messages is like a balloon without helium, sure you can blow it up with just air (or explosions and endless action scenes), but it just doesn't float.