<story><title>Ursula Le Guin on Star Trek: TNG (1994)</title><url>https://gentlier.tumblr.com/post/661155647772082176/ursula-le-guin-on-star-trek-tng</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>uxcolumbo</author><text>These two snippets stood out for me:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Violence, on The Next Generation, is shown as a problem, or the failure to solve a problem, never as the true solution.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Lots of young people watch it, too, of course, and, recently, at a conference about science fiction, one of them told me why: “A lot of science fiction shows us a future just like now, only worse,” she said. “I like The Next Generation because it shows us a future I could live in.” &amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Compare the old shows, TNG &amp;amp; DS9 with the new shows - Discovery and Picard.&lt;p&gt;Alan Kurtzman and team have completely destroyed the spirit of Star Trek - totally ignored what Roddenberry tried to achieve - which is nicely encapsulated in the two snippets above.&lt;p&gt;Instead Kurtzman &amp;amp; team created something bland, superficial with no depth by desperately and selfishly imprinting their own mark on the Star Trek world without respecting its history. Even the great actors like Stewart, Spiner or De Lancie couldn&amp;#x27;t save it.&lt;p&gt;----&lt;p&gt;PS. This is a good summary of the new Trek:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=WaK7jGyY4Wo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=WaK7jGyY4Wo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=3BiyH8lENRs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=3BiyH8lENRs&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SkyMarshal</author><text>I think the reorientation around conflict actually began with Rick Berman after he took over from Roddenberry back 90s or early 2000s or whenever it was.  He explicitly stated that he wanted more interpersonal conflict between the crew of the enterprise.  His notion was that Roddenberry’s utopian vision of the way the crew worked together was just not realistic.  Of course he missed the whole point, that it may not be realistic today, but it was an aspirational vision of a better future.  I watched TNG religiously as a kid, but once Berman took over and began infusing pointless interpersonal conflict, I lost interest.&lt;p&gt;That said, everything I’ve seen of Strange New Worlds so far is excellent, it’s like the old Roddenberry vision reincarnated.</text></comment>
<story><title>Ursula Le Guin on Star Trek: TNG (1994)</title><url>https://gentlier.tumblr.com/post/661155647772082176/ursula-le-guin-on-star-trek-tng</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>uxcolumbo</author><text>These two snippets stood out for me:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Violence, on The Next Generation, is shown as a problem, or the failure to solve a problem, never as the true solution.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Lots of young people watch it, too, of course, and, recently, at a conference about science fiction, one of them told me why: “A lot of science fiction shows us a future just like now, only worse,” she said. “I like The Next Generation because it shows us a future I could live in.” &amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Compare the old shows, TNG &amp;amp; DS9 with the new shows - Discovery and Picard.&lt;p&gt;Alan Kurtzman and team have completely destroyed the spirit of Star Trek - totally ignored what Roddenberry tried to achieve - which is nicely encapsulated in the two snippets above.&lt;p&gt;Instead Kurtzman &amp;amp; team created something bland, superficial with no depth by desperately and selfishly imprinting their own mark on the Star Trek world without respecting its history. Even the great actors like Stewart, Spiner or De Lancie couldn&amp;#x27;t save it.&lt;p&gt;----&lt;p&gt;PS. This is a good summary of the new Trek:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=WaK7jGyY4Wo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=WaK7jGyY4Wo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=3BiyH8lENRs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=3BiyH8lENRs&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>foobarbecue</author><text>I agree with you about Discovery and (ugh) Picard. But calling those THE new shows? What about Strange New Worlds? I love SNW because it&amp;#x27;s very much in the spirit of TOS and TNG.&lt;p&gt;And while I wouldn&amp;#x27;t say Lower Decks &amp;#x2F;respects&amp;#x2F; the spirit of early Trek, it certainly shows an awareness of the utopian philosophy!</text></comment>