tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2801441755423984496.post1366893255476063792..comments2024-03-05T17:26:44.559-08:00Comments on Roman's Movie Reviews and Musings: Nostalgia Nugget: Star Trek was Always Around - Part 2Roman J. Martelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09545497713474664555noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2801441755423984496.post-7502416395067522282016-07-25T08:40:09.398-07:002016-07-25T08:40:09.398-07:00Yeah I'm not even sure how that rivalry starte...Yeah I'm not even sure how that rivalry started. I just remember it really kicking in in the mid 90s. Trek fans were calling Wars fans dumb and Wars fans were calling Trek fans nerds. Just plain odd. <br /><br />Seems like most folks have lightened up these days. Everyone is a nerd now and that is OK. :)Roman J. Martelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09545497713474664555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2801441755423984496.post-32672423636869380312016-07-25T08:38:25.206-07:002016-07-25T08:38:25.206-07:00I had heard that Roddenberry was trying to create ...I had heard that Roddenberry was trying to create a concept of Starfleet without conflict. An interesting idea, but one that doesn't work so well with television. You need conflict to create good drama. The first couple seasons are pretty rough. But there are a few good episodes in there (and even a great one or two). But once they got Roddenberry out of the writing room in season three, things really seemed to pick up steam. <br /><br />Eventually they were able to keep the Star Trek optimism but include conflict and drama among the crew. Yeah it got a little soapy at times, but that seems to be the case with nearly every television show at some point. I still like the original crew the best, but TNG did a good job when they hit their stride. I do have to say I think I might like the character mix in DS9 a little more than TNG and maybe even more than TOS. But we'll see.Roman J. Martelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09545497713474664555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2801441755423984496.post-81326141198100583762016-07-22T16:18:44.603-07:002016-07-22T16:18:44.603-07:00Roddenberry seems to have gone through some person...Roddenberry seems to have gone through some personal evolution that, however rewarding it may have been for him at a private level, was not good for television. It’s an old adage that conflict = drama. If everyone’s in harmony… well… that’s just a glee club. Greek drama supposedly began when Thespis went beyond simple choral singing by getting on stage as an actor and exchanging words (conflict) with the choragus (chorus leader). I guess it was an 80s thing because Roddenberry did more rough-and-tumble pilots in the 70s. Even though they weren’t picked up I liked a few of them including Genesis II, Planet Earth, and (especially) Spectre.<br /><br />Star Trek TOS aired while I was in my young teens so it had more effect on me than Star Wars, but the later rivalry of the two scifi camps puzzled me. But then, so does the Yankees/Mets rivalry. One can prefer one home team without hating the other it seems to me. Perhaps I just don’t get something.<br />Richard Bellushhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10108081864942272619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2801441755423984496.post-70120672141976330572016-07-22T08:15:43.034-07:002016-07-22T08:15:43.034-07:00I never thought Encounter At Fairpoint was that en...I never thought Encounter At Fairpoint was that engaging either. For a creature with God-like powers, John de Lancie, just seemed a poor choice. He's a good actor, but a bit, hard to put my finger on it, foppish? He seemed more like a cosmic prankster like maybe Mr. Mxyzptlk from Superman than a God. <br /><br />That aside, the first Next Gen season was a bit weak, but tolerable. It got better, but never achieved what TOS was like. I think some of that was Roddenberry's direction, when he was still alive, and trying to create a universe without conflict or beyond fist fighting. Supposedly humanity had grown beyond that, but fist fighting or conflict is one of the aspects of TOS, among others, that keeps it vital. Fans may disagree on that, but I think that's one of the reasons the other Trek series haven't lived up to the original. Next Gen did have too many soap opera episodes dealing with one of the crew's love life or lack there of, etc. I don't know if that was trying to appease the female fans or what, but blah...<br /><br />I think the new movies reboots are going back to the basics as far as that's concerned (more action), but some fans don't care for them either. So it's a franchise that is always going to have its pros and cons with fans I guess. El Voxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05985563041511492981noreply@blogger.com