pittrek said:
- TNG aliens - I have never ever seen so realistically looking aliens as in TNG/DS9/VOY. Westmore's team did an amazing job. Unfortunately they started to do CG aliens in Voyager and later Enterprise, they look horrible. I'm also really glad they used humanoids, it's the most probable way how aliens would look like.
Yeah, it's so realistic that virtually 99% of all sentient species in the galaxy would evolve to look, sound, and act like humans save for a few forehead ridges and pointed ears. *rollseyes*
No, to be honest, alien life out there shouldn't look much like humanity at all. If anything, it should look like this:
or this
- no internal conflict on TNG - it's actually a GOOD thing. That's the reason why millions of people all over the planet LOVE the show. BECAUSE the main characters are friends, and the conflict always comes from the outside. It also adds a further element of reality. If you're away in space for 10 years you simply MUST like the people you meet on a daily basis. Otherwise you'd get crazy.
Your argument hinges on the precept that friends/family never have any major arguments or fights. Unfortunately, things don't work that way; in the real world, even people who love one another deeply aren't going to agree on every single little thing.
Having it so that Riker never questions Picard's orders -- or anything else along those lines -- makes the characters and their relationships look flat and inauthentic.