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[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I mean, of course it was going to be R-rated, Quent doesn’t exactly make family-friendly pics.

But also, why is everyone always trying to make Star Trek edgier these days?

[–] FinishingDutch@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Re: edgier Trek:

For me, I feel like we’ve had so much ‘positive utopia’ Trek, that more of the same just gets a bit boring. There’s also the fact that life today is different compared to when Trek first aired. We’re more aware of some of those sharper edges and want to see them represented in media.

From a practical standpoint, there’s also ‘we can, so we do’. When Trek aired on regular TV, you couldn’t drop an F-bomb, much less show actual gritty stuff. With streaming, there’s no reason to hold back. Which gives writers more room to explore.

[–] Deceptichum@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

Pretty much every trek since 9/11 has been edgy.

[–] query@lemmy.world -2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Lucky they made DS9 before TNG had even finished, then.

We didn't really get more of the TNG side of things with the TNG movies. Then they moved on to JJA Star Trek, which wasn't much of anything, not dark, not utopian, just references.

While Discovery was in part based around rescuing an ultra-fascist from another universe.

It took bringing back Picard himself to approach doing what they once did decades ago. And I guess not let the actor have too much say over the script, if that's what messed up the movies.

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[–] guitarsarereal@sh.itjust.works 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Because you can only tell so many stories when literally all of your characters are required to be so narrow and flat it becomes a matter of debate and discussion when they do or say anything that would make them seem like real people.

[–] Stamets@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Exactly. There is painfully little character development done throughout TNG. At the end of the final season the characters are still basically the same person who they were at the start. Picard is a little softer, Data is a little closer to being a person, Worf is still just Worf, Geordi is arguably a creepier person, Riker did not change like at all either, Deanna and Beverly also didn't get development so much as a wardrobe. Basically the person with the most character development was Yar who died and then got resurrected through time shenanigans before forced into sexual slavery to a Romulan until she died. That's not exactly... impressive. I love TNG and I love all the stories and the morals it tells but in todays TV atmosphere it is impossible to properly replicate that. Even SNW keeps a consistent plot throughout all the episodes and limits it to half of what TNG was dropping per year.

Then you look at Deep Space 9. This show is constantly praised by people left right and center. Why? Character development, a consistent plot, a serialized story and consequences that carry over from episode to episode instead of being immediately forgotten or relegated to a simple reference with a background prop. It is insane to me that so many people hate the newer Trek iterations for being "too dark" and "focusing too much on story" when that's just Deep Space 9. An incredibly dark show that covers some seriously heavy subject material and has a consistent story that affects everything else around it.

[–] skellener@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

I’d still love to see him make it!

[–] xilliah@beehaw.org 1 points 11 months ago

Set phasers to fry

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