McCoy and Spock never had any arguments?.......................
Posted on 06/23/2017 12:02:47 PM PDT by EveningStar
Star Trek: Discovery is shedding a creative restriction that’s long frustrated top writers on previous shows in the franchise.
Showrunners Aaron Harberts and Gretchen J. Berg — working from a creative roadmap laid out by executive producer Bryan Fuller — are delivering a Trek saga that gets rid of one the franchise’s decades-old limitations in an effort to evolve the series.
As part of Trek creator Gene Roddenberry’s utopian vision of the future (and one that Trek franchise executive producer Rick Berman carried on after Roddenberry’s death in 1991), writers on Trek shows were urged to avoid having Starfleet crew members in significant conflict with one another (unless a crew member is, say, possessed by an alien force), or from being shown in any seriously negative way.
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McCoy and Spock never had any arguments?.......................
This was a rule? I don’t buy it.
Ya I really don’t get that there was to be no conflict. There was tension among characters on Star Trek , just as we see on other shows.
I’m surprised the movie directors have honored his wishes up till now. A little more conflict may make it interesting and less predictable. So long as the ‘winner’ of any conflict does not always end up being a protected minority group.
Yes, social politics has seeped into Star Trek too.
Where has it not seeped into?
Roddenberry’s box? Sounds like an episode.
I will not pay for CBS All Access. Hopefully in short order STD (wow....I’m not going to get any STDs!) will be available elsewhere.
So, Bones and Spock, phasers at 50 paces?
are they going to stop sending the ship’s captain out with every “away” team?
SHUT UP, WESLEY!....................
Like Schrödinger’s Box except the cat has to follow the prime directive and ear or not eat the poison based on its own cultural pathway.
Why, that describes the third episode exactly.
I always liked that the starfleet crew generally acted fairly professionally with each other and the show avoided some of the boring soap opera antics of other similar shows. The endless conflict between characters can come off as lazy writing and a cheap way to drum up forced drama. I Am guessing the show will have a long running plot instead of a more episodic nature.
The rule went in place for TNG. Which is one of the reason TNG sucked so bad.
No conflict? But what about all those cruel insults? “You bumbling bucket of bolts!”, “You ill-informed ignoramus!”
Oh, wait. That was Dr. Smith talking to the Robot on Lost in Space.
Actually it makes perfect sense but the insipidly stupid trek writers from next gen forward kept whining that it stunted their creativity (that is be the lazy writers they were and turn trek into a soap opera).
The point was to keep the stories OUT THERE and one of discovery and not about the crew themselves. Even though that’s what they did with TNG and Voyager. Just without conflict or with utilizing the great reset button.
DS9 got around it by putting all the conflict on the non starfleet characters which turned DS9 into a soap opera of sorts
Ultimately - you can’t do SJW storylines without whiny self-absorbed people crying about their neurosis.
And that’s why the rule was abdicated.
Why Dr.Smith was never shot from day 1 or from his 2nd threat to the family... or the third... 4th... 100th... escapes me.
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