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I Love ‘Star Trek’ (Over ‘Star Wars’ & All Other Space & SciFi Entertainment), But I have One-Problem. What Do The Rest of True Fans Think? (piefed.social)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by GreatWhite_Shark_EarthAndBeingsRightsPerson@piefed.social to c/risa@startrek.website

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The one-problem with ‘Star Trek’ it is supposed to be exploring space & not interfering with other planets’ beings’ development, but it still has a lot of violence-wars. I think this comes right from the inventor/creator of ‘Star Trek’s experiences in great war. I wish I could create something as successful as he did, just my own story - more politics & thus activism involved & lead good characters not using violence & war as candy for viewers entertainment.
I grew-up with ‘Star Wars’ (like almost all other Space & SciFi entertainment) that was really about war, not peace & the true work it takes to get there-maintaining it. Then matured into the person I am & chose ‘Star Trek’ over ‘Star Wars’ (let alone almost all other Space & SciFi entertainment), because closest to exploration through peace & the true work it takes to get there-maintaining it.

Thus, my favorite Space & SciFi entertainment now are D S 9 & T N G.

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[–] godot@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Older Star Trek, as Roddenberry saw it, more closely followed your desired formula. I mirror your sentiment, I love that Trek at its best is about culture, society, people, etc. Unfortunately war is a comfortable crutch for shows like Star Trek, I’d be surprised if anyone could make a sci-fi TV show entirely without it. Personally I’ll take entire seasons of filler about things like fungus people or Law In Space.

Up to a certain point Trek managed to keep military conflict at bay, to a degree. There were episodes about the Neutral Zone, or a Klingon raid, or what have you, but the plot eventually would cycle back to other matters. It’s DS9 where the show runners intentionally dove into those elements, and to their credit the show found good conflict there. How do you feel about Voyager? I prefer it to DS9, despite thinking DS9 is a stronger show and preferring the cast, because it focuses more on the things I like in Trek while DS9 at its root is about war.

[–] GreatWhite_Shark_EarthAndBeingsRightsPerson@piefed.social 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I am not sure how to quote, from others’ posts, & cannot find posts exchanges providing those answers.
“Personally I’ll take entire seasons of filler about things like fungus people or Law In Space.”
I dislike the implications in the word filler, especially, entire seasons worth. I am assuming meaning scientific over violence & wars. What do you mean by Law in Space? What & How The UN supposed to work here on Earth, is what you mean but in participating Beings’ areas of other space?
I rarely see the main focus of episodes eventually moving away from violence and wars.
I agree while ‘D S 9’ ends-up being extremely violent version, it still is my favorite right now. Only because I not watched their episodes as many times as I have the very best version ever- ‘The N G’. From my watching all the versions, observationally, ‘The N G’ is 2nd least violence & wars’ plot for the series existence more. I thought ‘The Enterprise’ series had a huge potential, love the plot for the series existence, but it just sucked & ran to violence & war.

[–] GreatWhite_Shark_EarthAndBeingsRightsPerson@piefed.social 1 points 4 days ago

I remember watching the older ‘Star Trek’, I would disagree with that, because the crews were not made-up the same professions. Plus, all the rankings & languages used were from WW2 USA Navy.