Gene Roddenberry created Star Trek. The sci-fi visionary not only birthed the iconic, original TV series featuring William Shatner as Captain Kirk and Leonard Nimoy as Spock, but also its spin-off, Star Trek: The Next Generation, starring Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard. Some of us, even those loyal hardcore fans who’ve supported Trek for years, may forget such an important fact.
We shouldn't.
Gene Roddenberry's core vision is what made Star Trek so popular and pop culture powerful. This unique creative vision guided the franchise for decades. Is Roddenberry's essential philosophy missing from modern Paramount Plus Trek incarnations?
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Bravo! Could not have put it any better....I feel like Trek has not only lost it's way in service to the new version's warped vision...but its very soul as created by Roddenberry.
Not having watched any of them, I cannot possibly know. Still, observing screenwriters today weasel their way out of principled thinking at every turn makes me feel the odds are stacked against this possibility. 😜
Most fans feel this Nu-Trek or PP-Trek as I call it simply has become like Star Wars. But even SW - classic anyway - had more intellectual heft and even substantive philosophy.
What's also to blame? In my video, I touch on it briefly: Streaming. These studios and license owners of their various IP's milk em as much as they can for streaming content. It's like a conveyor belt of badly shaped/written programs - with sadly, no end in sight. Hollywood doesn't take risks anymore. We only have to see Marvel and DC with endless churning out of comic book movies. They're fun, sure, but it's arguably complete audience over saturation now.
Looking back to when Next Gen debuted in syndication and later when I wrote for it seems such a quaint, simple time. Comparably, to this current chaotic media landscape, it truly was.... 🖖
Well said. Although the change in the business model precedes streaming very slightly in my view... Everything that was unthinkable when Star Wars came out in 1977 (merchandising being the most prominent aspect), is now unthinkable never to do. As you say, it is very much the transformation of creativity into the act of milking IP.
Bravo! Could not have put it any better....I feel like Trek has not only lost it's way in service to the new version's warped vision...but its very soul as created by Roddenberry.
The concept of 'In Name Only' haunts loyal, classic scholarly Trekkers..... Hell, even as a dramatic exercise, PPTrek fails miserably.
Please, Amazon, bring back the spectacular Stargate honorably! OBee-Waan-Bezos, you're our only hope!
Not having watched any of them, I cannot possibly know. Still, observing screenwriters today weasel their way out of principled thinking at every turn makes me feel the odds are stacked against this possibility. 😜
Most fans feel this Nu-Trek or PP-Trek as I call it simply has become like Star Wars. But even SW - classic anyway - had more intellectual heft and even substantive philosophy.
What's also to blame? In my video, I touch on it briefly: Streaming. These studios and license owners of their various IP's milk em as much as they can for streaming content. It's like a conveyor belt of badly shaped/written programs - with sadly, no end in sight. Hollywood doesn't take risks anymore. We only have to see Marvel and DC with endless churning out of comic book movies. They're fun, sure, but it's arguably complete audience over saturation now.
Looking back to when Next Gen debuted in syndication and later when I wrote for it seems such a quaint, simple time. Comparably, to this current chaotic media landscape, it truly was.... 🖖
Well said. Although the change in the business model precedes streaming very slightly in my view... Everything that was unthinkable when Star Wars came out in 1977 (merchandising being the most prominent aspect), is now unthinkable never to do. As you say, it is very much the transformation of creativity into the act of milking IP.
Stay wonderful!
You're doing a truly excellent job on Stranger Worlds! 🖖
Thank you for saying so. It is a fine line to walk, but it is my pleasure to make the attempt.