Everyone on star trek has anxiety, panic attacks, ptsd and imposter syndrome now. It is too much!
Barclay was OK. (In TNG.) He had his episodes but they were interesting because of the juxtaposition against the others.
Like >60% of plot & characters are now about anxiety and mental (un)health. It is individuated vs collective.
I also deeply resent the attempt to create equivalency between AI and LGBT people.
No wonder people hate woke.
I was somewhat disabused of this idea when I saw Gene Roddenberry had 1 production prior to TOS and decided to watch it. A “sexploitation” called “pretty maids all in a row” (CWs include: SA murder grooming paedophilia— in no short measure on any of them). Which in moments actually strikes the same tone as some of the most profound scenes of ST. There are contemplations of a future humanity where humans have overcome their current deficiencies. The main character actually does remind of JLP. And the TOS ep where spock and kirk travelled back in time to land with a woman who was running a catholic worker house (sort of thing) but then she became fascist. Except rather than JLP’s agonizing about the prime directive, in “pretty maids” it is a future where teachers and students all fuck each other according to an ethic of promiscuity. And when you learn about how Roddenberry conducted himself in person… you can see it.
But then otoh, idk, if we consider ST itself as a collective process that Roddenberry wasn’t the sole creative force in, then maybe.
Did you see “what we left behind”?
Havent seen “what we left behind”
I see the sex pervert side of roddenberry even in TOS trek yeah. Idk anything about how he conducted himself tho
Yeah, Roddenberry gets way more credit than he really deserves, and not enough pushback on his sexpest behaviour. Rick Berman as well.
She didn’t become fascist, she just enabling it by her public pacifism delaying entry into the war. US contribution was minor but I dunno what would have happened without that minor contribution because the eastern front was a very near thing. City on the Edge of Forever is really good, diamond in the rough.