No more than any other "magical" solution for the anomaly of the week. They examined the problem. Found the rules that applied and used them to engineer a solution.
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As opposed to a transporter beam splitting Kirk into his good and evil halves? Or Q creating a "Robin Hood" fantasy for Picard or crew? Or a Bajoran orb causing Sisko to become a 1950s pulp SF writer?
Trek has never been rigorously hard-SF all the time. It slips into the Twilight Zone sometimes.
Which is a good thing, IMO. Makes for a wide variety of episodes and approaches. Means you get everything from "The Trouble with Tribbles" to "In the Pale Moonlight."
The second episode ever made is literally about a psychokinetic energy field inside a vast barrier at the edge of our galaxy that gives humans dangerous ESP powers and eventually godlike abilities if left unchecked. That's about as Twilight Zone/Outer Limits as you can get.
A subspace anomaly that makes everyone sing to music they can hear coming from a place they do not know is no more absurd than a negative energy barrier at the edge of the galaxy that gives people with ESP potential godlike powers, or a warp drive malfunction that takes the ship to a place where the crew becomes able to objectify their own thoughts. The bonus is that at least with the singing, we can be boldly amused in ways we've never been amused before. So....
Oh, phooey, I got ninja'd, more or less.
Oh, phooey, I got ninja'd, more or less.
I get where you are coming from with SNW.Honestly I do but I’m learning to just go with it.
Tastes have changed since TOS.
Instead of speculative sci-fi with an action/adventure aspect SNW seems to be more character driven than TOS.Not bad just different.
I watched the musical episode...didn’t love it,didn’t hate it but there you go.
Tastes have changed since TOS.
Instead of speculative sci-fi with an action/adventure aspect SNW seems to be more character driven than TOS.Not bad just different.
I watched the musical episode...didn’t love it,didn’t hate it but there you go.
Not sure TOS spent much time "speculating".
One thing to keep in mind about this BBS is that it is pretty slanted towards pro-NuTrek. It's just survivorship bias after natural attrition. Some people bailed at the beginning of DISCOVERY. Others when PICARD season 1 went off the rails. And there is the elephant in the room political component as well.
I bailed after the end of DISCOVERY season 2. I followed from afar with disgust reviews going over the initial PICARD episodes. I only came back because I was a fan of the replacement PICARD showrunner.
SNW is an unwatchable dumpster fire in my view. I've seen 9 of its now 19 episodes, and yeah, it does mess with canon to a point even DISCOVERY wouldn't cross.
PICARD season 2 is bad, but say on the level with the misfires of TNG season 1. I'm a big fan of PICARD season 3. I like PRODIGY. And, I find that after it stabilizes at the end of its season 1, the positives outweigh the negatives with LOWER DECKS, but it continues to make many unforced errors.
Your sentiments might find better representation on YouTube, and some have been reflected by the Popcast and Robert Meyer Burnett.
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I wrote an essay recently about how TOS owes more to The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits than modern-day fans may appreciate. It's going to be published sometime in the fall, I believe. (More details as they solidify.)
Hahaha...I am not even a huge canon guy, but I can say, with 1000% percent confidence that Discovery 100% walked over lines that SNW isn't willing to do.
Yes. That's why so many people on here say "TOS is my favorite."
Crazy people.
A word play joke. Hence the quotation marks.Try looking up what speculative science fiction is.
In my experience, when people insist that something "isn't STAR TREK," what they usually mean is "it isn't TNG." At least most of time.
As though, again, the 90s-era stuff is the only "real" STAR TREK, as opposed to the classic 1960s stuff and newer 21st-century shows.
Personally, I've been around long enough to see Trek revived and reinvented (and, inevitably, denounced by old-school purists) over and over again. It doesn't faze me anymore.
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Hey it's your opinion. That's OK. I see what youre getting at. I just thought as they explained it was just a possibility of something that came true because of the field. At least the actors played it straight and it wasn't downright ridiculous when they weren't singing. They were actually trying to seriously find a solution.
One more thing... A (legal) view is a view. Hate watching it counts just the same as like watching it for internal metrics. So, if you hate a Star Trek franchise series, watching it only contributes to the potential production of more of it. I'd suggest following it from afar, and if things appear to change in your favor, you can come back and catch up.
(EDITED TO ADD) Yet another point... There are several posters on this board that actively enjoy seeing some legacy Trek fans reach their breaking point with NuTrek. They won't engage your points with good faith, just ridicule you, enjoy your frustrations, and be assholes. I share some of your objections, and find some other ones pretty objectionable. But at a certain point it is what it is. Luckily this isn't the entire epicenter of Star Trek on the internet.
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Time is precious.
I recommend not watching things you don't like.
I recommend not watching things you don't like.
Wonder why?
You know what SNW is starting to remind me of - only a little - with respect to how it relates to previous Star Trek?
Russell T. Davies' 2005 revival of Doctor Who.
Most definitely.
Star Trek. They're doing Star Trek.
In your opinion, which I happen to believe is wrong.
Oh, you're not alone. Not that you'll be in very good company.
Yep.
Nope.
Mostly.
You would think that.
Ah, yes. Everyone knows how cool and level headed the comment sections are on YouTube. And yes, I'm sure you'll adore the arrogant, egotistical, self-important rants of RMB.
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