What do you HATE about Star Trek?

[BigJake]

At no time did urbandefault tell everyone here who posts negative things what to think or to "shut up" if their opinions and his don't coincide.

That's a very charitable and constructive reading of his posts, and hopefully a correct one.

 

[urbandefault]

I don't hate anything about Star Trek, but ...

I'll tell you what I miss. I miss the days in the 70s when there wasn't so much Trek that people felt like they could pee all over the stuff they didn't like because there was always more coming down the road.

The Trek I grew up with was all there was. My friends and I loved it, exploring the bits and pieces of what we could see in the reruns after school. Building the AMT models and making cardboard backdrops and, in one case, lining a ceiling with black paper and spritzing on "stars" with flourescent paint so we could take pics with the blacklight on.

In those days, we made uniforms out of whatever we could find. We had little club meetings and talked about our favorite episodes and had slideshows of film clips mail-ordered from typed and Xeroxed Lincoln Enterprises catalogs that you had to send away for in the first place.

I don't remember people back then complaining about character flaws or plot holes or moral compasses. It was just Star Trek, and we loved it. It never occurred to me or my friends that it had flaws. It was just a tv show, and it was a lot of fun.

I guess what I hate is that those days of appreciating what you had, because that's all there was, are gone forever.

Free speech is by far preferable to the thought police you seem to prefer.

It never occurred to you or to your friends that it had flaws? Really?
Such uniformity of thought...I'm reminded of Orwell's 1984 world.

Huh? Who said anything about thought police, besides you?

Buddy, there were 4 or 5 of us, we were like 12 years old at the time, and there was no other Star Trek around. Not to mention the fact that there was no internet to tell us we were wrong to like it for what it was.

We read what we could find, in books or fanzines or whatever, and talked about it and drew pictures and made up stories and had fun with it.

How about easing up a little and just have some fun? Geesh.

 

[BigJake]

How about easing up a little and just have some fun? Geesh.

Great advice! I suppose next time you might consider taking it before using provocative language like "people felt like they could pee all over the stuff they didn't like because there was always more coming down the road" -- but hey, maybe that's just my "agenda" talking.

 

[urbandefault]

How about easing up a little and just have some fun? Geesh.

Great advice! I suppose next time you might consider taking it before using provocative language like "people felt like they could pee all over the stuff they didn't like because there was always more coming down the road" -- but hey, maybe that's just my "agenda" talking.

Thanks for the help, friend.

 

[BigJake]

You're welcome!

 

[Timewalker]

At no time did urbandefault tell everyone here who posts negative things what to think or to "shut up" if their opinions and his don't coincide.

That's a very charitable and constructive reading of his posts, and hopefully a correct one.

I interpret it as exasperation, as in "I wish people would stop saying _____" vs "Hey, you! STFU!"

 

[Misfit Toy]

Speaking of exasperation...

I think this thread has run it's course.