Well, except in this version of Star Trek. As the series progresses it is fast becoming the worst written show on television.
The problem is the show is being run with a political agenda. Whether their agenda is right or wrong is irrelevant. The fact the agenda is being deployed with a hammer and has taken precedence over the Star Trek universe is. The negative effect of this choice on the writing is destroying the series.
One of the goals of the Cultural Marxists that have invaded & over-ran the Arts departments of the West's universities is to do the same to the Science departments. The trouble is both Math and Physics are impervious to post-modernism, so the thrust is being attempted through the Biology department.
Fill out this new Bio-rulz world with New Agey concepts and you have the "physics" of the new Star Trek universe. An impossible world governed by California spiritualism.
And when you then hear the repeated mantra by every guest of After Trek that they care deeply about canon, despite blatantly obvious fundamental changes, you begin to wonder if this STD is *actual* propaganda. Spores driven at the audience.
And because this world can't possibly exist and has little correlation to the world of the other series, it requires a ton of expository. This need for expository has weighed down the story by stealing time from stronger elements.
And this agenda leads to bad choices like the re-design of the Klingons, like subspace mind melds, like creating a spore drive reliant on sub-sub-sub atomic biology despite the impossibility of the notion, like creating a space whale that, even though it could possibly exist in a complete vacuum, would then certainly be destroyed by being in a ship's hold. These are just the tip of a very large iceberg when it comes to the show's slipshod treatment of science. Not to mention contrived story-telling.
This why we get petulance and hissy fits, a Vulcan-trained main character who acts mostly out of emotion, immature Starfleet officers that seem not at war but rather molded by a campus safe space.
And we take side trips into environmentalism and animal welfare and talk of "souls" and other forms of virtue-signaling, despite these having little to do with the central plot of War. Sun Tzu would be betting on the Klingons to win. Fortunately for Starfleet the Klingons are written by the same idiots that write the humans.
The series suffers from regular bad writing too...
The story has been moving in a soap opera-ey direction, always a danger when there is one ongoing story. Or in the case of DS9, when there is one location. The bumping of characters up against each other can't get more important than the overall arc. At a lot of time has been spent on domestic scenes, not to mention sex, and the prior Star Trek ship series never felt the need to dwell there.
The series has been caught in a chuggy episodic telling, despite its proclamations of being about an ongoing story. These episodes have no connection to each other--goals are ethereal in the long term and only one episode long in the short term, so there is no narrative drive from one weekend to the next. Writers are caught in no man's land between an ongoing story and episodes. At least find some way to tie the episodes together better. The writing at this level seems especially weak.
The titles! Who writes these things? The last few titles have had nothing but a glancing relationship with their episodes. There's a term for weak but overly-fancy writing... pretentious.
You know what, you want people to like gays in space? Make them deeper characters, better Starfleet officers, stronger people, less stereotypical, interesting not for their gayness--for what the heck is interesting about someone's sexual choice--but for all the other things they bring to the world. Stamets--the gay showrunner's avatar in this Trek-verse, according to the showrunner--is horribly written.
The show is doomed. There is no escaping the hole the writers and producers have dug for themselves. This voyage is condemned to mediocrity because its politics take precedence over a love of Star Trek and of good story-telling.
Sorry, but you kenna break the laws of physics.
The problem is the show is being run with a political agenda. Whether their agenda is right or wrong is irrelevant. The fact the agenda is being deployed with a hammer and has taken precedence over the Star Trek universe is. The negative effect of this choice on the writing is destroying the series.
One of the goals of the Cultural Marxists that have invaded & over-ran the Arts departments of the West's universities is to do the same to the Science departments. The trouble is both Math and Physics are impervious to post-modernism, so the thrust is being attempted through the Biology department.
Fill out this new Bio-rulz world with New Agey concepts and you have the "physics" of the new Star Trek universe. An impossible world governed by California spiritualism.
And when you then hear the repeated mantra by every guest of After Trek that they care deeply about canon, despite blatantly obvious fundamental changes, you begin to wonder if this STD is *actual* propaganda. Spores driven at the audience.
And because this world can't possibly exist and has little correlation to the world of the other series, it requires a ton of expository. This need for expository has weighed down the story by stealing time from stronger elements.
And this agenda leads to bad choices like the re-design of the Klingons, like subspace mind melds, like creating a spore drive reliant on sub-sub-sub atomic biology despite the impossibility of the notion, like creating a space whale that, even though it could possibly exist in a complete vacuum, would then certainly be destroyed by being in a ship's hold. These are just the tip of a very large iceberg when it comes to the show's slipshod treatment of science. Not to mention contrived story-telling.
This why we get petulance and hissy fits, a Vulcan-trained main character who acts mostly out of emotion, immature Starfleet officers that seem not at war but rather molded by a campus safe space.
And we take side trips into environmentalism and animal welfare and talk of "souls" and other forms of virtue-signaling, despite these having little to do with the central plot of War. Sun Tzu would be betting on the Klingons to win. Fortunately for Starfleet the Klingons are written by the same idiots that write the humans.
The series suffers from regular bad writing too...
The story has been moving in a soap opera-ey direction, always a danger when there is one ongoing story. Or in the case of DS9, when there is one location. The bumping of characters up against each other can't get more important than the overall arc. At a lot of time has been spent on domestic scenes, not to mention sex, and the prior Star Trek ship series never felt the need to dwell there.
The series has been caught in a chuggy episodic telling, despite its proclamations of being about an ongoing story. These episodes have no connection to each other--goals are ethereal in the long term and only one episode long in the short term, so there is no narrative drive from one weekend to the next. Writers are caught in no man's land between an ongoing story and episodes. At least find some way to tie the episodes together better. The writing at this level seems especially weak.
The titles! Who writes these things? The last few titles have had nothing but a glancing relationship with their episodes. There's a term for weak but overly-fancy writing... pretentious.
You know what, you want people to like gays in space? Make them deeper characters, better Starfleet officers, stronger people, less stereotypical, interesting not for their gayness--for what the heck is interesting about someone's sexual choice--but for all the other things they bring to the world. Stamets--the gay showrunner's avatar in this Trek-verse, according to the showrunner--is horribly written.
The show is doomed. There is no escaping the hole the writers and producers have dug for themselves. This voyage is condemned to mediocrity because its politics take precedence over a love of Star Trek and of good story-telling.
Sorry, but you kenna break the laws of physics.