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738105, You make good points, maybe I'm jsut tired of the same dystopia
Posted by handle, Sun Mar-01-20 11:52 AM
>I'll give you the fact that the dystopian elements are pretty
>banal. Not really new even for Star Trek shows. But I think
>they're exploiting those tropes well, to tell a much richer
>story than they normally tend to tell, about loss, frailty,
>age, and exploitation. They couldn't really do that in TNG,
>with its episodic structure. I think they started to do
>something like that in DS9 and attempted to do it at times in
>Enterprise.
I think the completely utopian Federation was the fantasy element I enjoyed the most.
At least this one is moving time in the forward direction more than not - that's my issue with Trek for the last 20 years - that they're behind where we started.
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