Can't the rule be 'No more Space Hippies'?
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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But it was mostly comical and light. No real “hate”.
Bones and Spock, for instance. Or Quark and Odo on DS9.
Umm I can think of any number of episodes, including a recent movie where Star Fleet members were one of the chief villains.
Guess they forgot about Lieutenant Stiles’ animosity against Spock in the “Balance Of Terror” episode, when the resemblance between Romulans and Vulcans (and thus their common heritage) was revealed.
1000 Quatloos on the Vulcan!
Is this guy Hibbard watching the same reruns that I watch?
I thought the article was going to say that they were dumping the Prime Directive.
“The rule went in place for TNG. Which is one of the reason TNG sucked so bad.”
Yes, Spock and McCoy’s “conflicts” made the original show.
“Shut up, Spock. We’re trying to save you.”
I suppose this beats Young Uhuru slobbering all over Young Spock all movie, anyway.
It was a rule in the first two seasons of TNG.
That’s one big reason the first two seasons of TNG sucked so much!
Can't the rule be 'No more Space Hippies'?
First two seasons at least.
Season 3, Gene’s stranglehold on the franchise had loosened and it got better from there.
Even so, I agree with the writer whose name is slipping my mind. To paraphrase him, “Gene said, ‘All of Earth’s problems are solved; now go and write drama.’”
“I thought the article was going to say that they were dumping the Prime Directive.”
I thought they did that in the opening of the “Into Darkness” movie where they save the pasty faces from the volcano. That didn’t seem to hurt anyone’s career.
Specially through Amazon FireTV. All CBS's scripted weekly series. horrible "marriage."
Using the fast forward or rewind functions consistently lose sync between audio and video. Can't think of anything more irritating. Having reservations about the option of subscribing directly with CBS, too...
Season 3 started getting OK, but season 4 had all those “solo” episodes where we found out the only characters fully fleshed out enough to hold together an entire episode were Pickard and Data. Then 5 started to rev up again, but by 6 the cracks were really starting to show. That sounds like Ron Moore, in various interviews and forums I’ve heard him do about an hour how Gene made TNG impossible.
Star Trek: Discovery is a complete mess and they can’t fix it ,so here they go
Of course the original trio were basically designed to embody Freudian psychiatry so they had to have conflict. For TNG though he opted for more of an “ages of man” model where Wesley was the wide eyed innocence of youth, Pickard the slightly burnt out wisdom of age and Riker the man in his wizened some but still with much to learn. Then everybody hated Wesley and that stung Gene, so he brought in the mean nasty Dr to try to replicate Kirk, Bones and Spock with Pickard, Data and Satan (or whatever her name was), but really just showed he didn’t really understand why the first show worked.
in the first episode, black lives matter takes over the bridge but they don’t know how to lock the door, so security sneaks in some sleeping gas with their AIDS cocktails. None of them get put in the bridge because it’s all good.
In the first Star Trek with Chris Pine as Kirk he fought with Spock. It was towards the end when Spock stepped down as Capt.
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