Star Trek: Discovery to ditch a long frustrating Trek rule

Entertainment Weekly ^ | June 23, 2017 | James Hibberd

[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.

[hopespringseternal]

Which means it will be just like all the other crap on TV: chock full of whiny, self-absorbed retards who think the pinnacle of human existence boils down to who they are having sex with today.

[minnesota_bound]

Read the caption on the video - 2nd screen.
I is millennial speak BLAH!

http://ew.com/tv/2017/06/22/star-trek-discovery-transporter-room/

[mikrofon]

Who can forget that episode- “The Omega Glory”, where. Kirk had to stop Federation Captain Tracy from his brutal genocide against the ‘Yangs’ in an attempt to safeguard a “fountain of youth” on the planet, which turned out to be an illusion – The one where JTK gives a stirring reading of the Constitution preamble to the locals, basically reaffirming American ideals.

Nowadays, Progressives would probably ignore Tracy’s selfish motives & brutality, and applaud him for standing with the Koms against Yang imperialism and hegemony, and state that their ancestors deserved to be kicked out of their land for their past sins…

[Hugin]

The “rule” if it existed must have been about conflict between Enterprise crew. Plenty of examples of conflict between the crew and other Starfleet and Federation officials. There was a TNG episode where a female admiral instituted a witch hunt for traitors, “I’ve broken bigger men than you, Picard!”

Several examples of conflict with overbearing Federation diplomats.

[Tallguy]

Commodore’s Decker and Mendoza vs. Capt. Kirk? Bones vs. Spock in just about every episode? I don’t see much evidence of that ‘rule’.

[subterfuge]

That was what I thought, fwiw

[Raymann]

I thought first about Michael Eddington on DS9. When he joined the Maquis, Sisko hunted him DOWN! Made a planet inhabitable for human life to catch him.

[gnarledmaw]

I may have been one of the only Americans dumb enough to suffer through Stargate Universe. They turned what had been an action scifi series in the earlier shows into soap style drama. There was only enough action outside of the character interaction to create a setting. The adventure was totally lost as the story was really only the background setting that was the premise for everyone to meet and have sex...er, I mean, interact. It really had devolved into something with all the in depth story line, character development, and innovative sets as home made porn.

Over the years there have been a number of good scifi shows cancelled and in interviews after the show the same reason is regularly cited for cancellation, that is, the special effects and constant new set changes are just too costly per episode.

I wouldnt be surprised in the least if this is the thought process behind the change because how much can it cost to rearrange a bedroom once in a while? The same ship hallway that the sponge head alien was killed in in a hate crime this week is perfectly suitable for the next weeks episode where the captain rapes the green alien girl.

In other words, someone has decided to kill the franchise to try and get rich quick and weapon will be poorly casted and written sex and murder between the crew.

[Richard Kimball]

Watched some old episodes of TNG and Voyager several months ago. The blatant P.C. shocked me!!

Eh, I gave up on it when Picard surrendered the Enterprise for like the third time in the first season. I heard they wrote Wesley out later, but the first few episodes were "wesley saves the Enterprise," and I found that kid annoying. Frakes couldn't act dead if someone shot him.

So, I saw a few episodes here and there, but found it to be pretty bad and never went out of my way to see it the first time.

[donna]

They turned what had been an action scifi series in the earlier shows into soap style drama. There was only enough action outside of the character interaction to create a setting. The adventure was totally lost...

This describes what I've been complaining about for all new TV shows. They start out with adventure and the lead star is male; but, by the end of the 1st season, a female becomes the boss and all they do is talk, talk, talk.

I just want to watch an action male go on an adventure to do some good. Please! (And, I don't want to watch sex with kids and friends in the room.)

[Reily]

Unless the episode is Star Fleet contest between transporter chiefs, where they see how many space hippies they can transport into the core of a local star?

Winner gets a promotion and shore leave at a federation resort of their choice.

That would never get old!

[SunkenCiv]

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