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By Anus Moses

JMS said "The stories were, for the most part, safe, more about technology than what William Faulkner described as "the human heart in conflict with itself." Yes, there were always exceptions, but in general that trend became more and more apparent with the passage of years"

Ok. See... I just dunno about that. A lot of these comments about how the stories are about 'THE PEOPLE' seem to consider Trek (or sci-fi) just an interesting setting to execute the same tired cliche stories of human behavior.

I mean, I know all about Rodenberry's 'Wagon Train To The Stars' idea........ and the same formula was used time and time again for television programs for decades after (and continues today)....

How many times have you seen, for example, the story of the creative yet quirky young (boy/girl) forced to raise herself because her single (mom/dad) works too hard to make ends meet and doesn't spend time with the kid but suddenly an intervention by our traveling hero (Quantum Leap / Incredible Hulk / stranded Trek crew member / bionic man / Michael Knight and talking Trans-Am / etc) restores the parent-child relationship and all is well in the end..........

TNG was a good show, yes. But it had obvious moments of "Let's do Die Hard.... in space!" or "Let's have the entire crew hopelessly de-evolve to their primitive forms".... always to end with "Captains Log: After restoring the crew to normal........"

I thought DS9 was just stellar, yet I caught them doing "HEY! Let's do The Shining....... in space!"

TNG was good but does this ring a bell? "Eyes....... in the dark........."

I'm just saying that I am somewhat tired of sci-fi being a vehicle for 'futuristic' versions of the same tired old crap that TV churns out.

"People' can do 'people' stories in any setting you can cram 'people' into. Yes, Trek has given us a rich slate of characters. But the argument can also be made, especially with Rodenberry's efforts, that you have not characters but avatars for various cultures and stereotypes.

In TOS - we had the Scottish guy, the oriental, the black chick, the alien (who was half human, at least), the redneck southerner.......

I'm sorry that sci-fi has to be safe. I'm sorry that it can't delve into the rich tapestry that has been the advances of science over the decades that Trek has existed and instead opts out on empty 'techno babble'. JMS may be a hero to some - I wasn't a B5 fan myself. But his criticism of Trek, I think, is way off.

But, it's over for us for now anyway, and my opinion doesn't mean the tiniest turd.

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