[EveningStar]

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[Red Badger]

McCoy and Spock never had any arguments?.......................

[Williams]

This was a rule? I don’t buy it.

[lee martell]

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?

[YourAdHere]

Roddenberry’s box? Sounds like an episode.

[Vaquero]

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.

[colorado tanker]

So, Bones and Spock, phasers at 50 paces?

[WakeUpAndVote]

[Archytekt]

are they going to stop sending the ship’s captain out with every “away” team?

[Fido969]

Maybe they'll have a Christian character have a moral dislike for a gay character. The gay fellow will see the error of his ways and accept Jesus Christ and lifelong celibacy.

[escapefromboston]

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.

[Leaning Right]

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.

[Skywise]

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.

[MNJohnnie]

Umm I can think of any number of episodes, including a recent movie where Star Fleet members were one of the chief villains.

[JimRed]

Is this guy Hibbard watching the same reruns that I watch?

[Chgogal]

The last Star Trek pic was pretty loathsome. They kept shoving Hollywood PC crap into the storyline.

[Berosus]

I thought the article was going to say that they were dumping the Prime Directive.

[donna]

You can't watch cop shows on TV anymore because all cops are crooked. Is that what they want to do to Star Trek?

[Snickering Hound]

Can't the rule be 'No more Space Hippies'?

[butlerweave]

Star Trek: Discovery is a complete mess and they can’t fix it ,so here they go