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Surprise? -- Space-Based Sci-Fi!
By TRexx

Quote from cdydatzigs:
And like most shows, that number dropped off. So you can't use that argument to say that space-based SciFi was still popular.


It's nonsensical to imply that 13-million people tuned in to ENT and were surprised to see that it was space-based sci-fi.

Those 13-million people were scoping for good sci-fi.

What they got instead was Rick Berman's insult to intelligence.


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In space-based SciFi which is almost always about exploring the unknown and "seeing what's out there"


This is about GR's Star Trek, so your meandering "SciFi which is almost always about" says you see only the superficial sci-fi packaging. Of course you echo Berman's creative bankruptcy by saying "the cash cow had been milked too much and the premise had become stale."

Star Trek is neither depleted nor stale, because backdrop and epoch are immaterial to stories that are concerned with the human condition.

Human nature is immutable -- whether it's wagon-train cowboys against wild frontiers in the past, or starship crewmen against final frontiers in the future. When a storyteller is stumped by the latter, they're also stumped by the former, as these two scenarios differ only by substitution in metaphor.

Any human drama that can be expressed onscreen (or in print) can be transferred into a Star Trek story via Roddenberry's rules for substitution in metaphor. If ST writers are out of fresh ideas, then so are all creative writers.

Berman's POV is the incompetent's POV.


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