Subj : Re: Picard
To   : Daniel
From : Benjamin Toussaint
Date : Fri Sep 04 2020 12:54:00

> I never caught Enterprise. I tried a few episodes and I couldn't get into
> it. But the ship did look like an Akira class which rates as among a
> favorite type for me.

> Plus, I didn't really like the cast.

I do not like prequels in general. The cast is something you need to get  
used to, but still it was "more Star Trek-y" than anything else that came  
after it.

Discovery is as you say later "usual SciFi with Star Trek clothes".

> Well, Stewart said it was his way of combatting Trump. He made it about
> him and his hate and not about the fans. Interesting take you have, but I'm
> sure
> this isn't a forum for political debate. So I'll keep it at that.

The original ST does have a lot of political statements related to the  
time it was made. But instead of criticism against political actors,  
especially not specific ones, ST used to show a vision about better  
alternatives and kept the science within the fiction as "possible as  
possible".
This is probably the reason so many nerds and science people love it.

To me, dreaming about a better world and thinking how to achieve it has  
always been a way better attitude than ranting about the existing one.

> I was just getting it off my chest.
> Disney killed Star Wars and the passage of time killed Star Trek. My two
> loves of science fiction and fantasy are history.

Yes... we will likely have to accept, that "our" Star Trek might never  
return again.

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