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WCDT: 2001-2005 (29 Aug-2 Sept 2011)
Akima:
--- Quote from: Throg on 04 Sep 2011, 05:42 ---As far as I'm concerned, the entire Star Trek oeuvre is the worst sci-fi ever created.
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You must have lived a very sheltered life. Of course there is just so much Star Trek material that Sturgeon's Law applies, but there is way worse SF out there. Some of the Star Trek movies are not that great, but then there is Battlefield Earth...
And personally I give Star Trek props for putting Asian actors in the main cast, or at least regularly giving them lines since 1966, something that a certain more modern (and stratospherically overrated) science-fiction franchise signally failed to do. There is more than one way to suck.
jwhouk:
And it wasn't just that he was an Asian actor, he turned out to be an Asian Gay actor!
Throg:
--- Quote from: Akima on 06 Sep 2011, 03:09 ---You must have lived a very sheltered life. Of course there is just so much Star Trek material that Sturgeon's Law applies, but there is way worse SF out there. Some of the Star Trek movies are not that great, but then there is Battlefield Earth...
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*splutter*
Sturgeon's Law aside, it's just that I've suffered a sci-fi social scene where ST was the end-all-be-all. I appreciate Gene Roddenberry's vision (daring enough in the 60's / early 70's) of a pan-racial starship, but, well, I just can't stand the dialogue. A lot of British sci-fi -- Blake's Seven, the horror-inflected Tom Baker years, the season arc of the Key to Time, it just seeemed so much better done, even if the cardboard-and-fishing-line sfx were much, much worse. And I loved Babylon 5 for being a hardcore space opera, as the latter half of DS9 turned out to be.
*You* try getting along in a social group with a dude trying to work Klingon into regular conversation. Or quoting Sarek in a fight with his gf.
Carl-E:
Ah, so the problem isn't Star Trek, but rather the social group...
Try getting out more?
Method of Madness:
--- Quote from: Akima on 06 Sep 2011, 03:09 ---And personally I give Star Trek props for putting Asian actors in the main cast, or at least regularly giving them lines since 1966, something that a certain more modern (and stratospherically overrated) science-fiction franchise signally failed to do. There is more than one way to suck.
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Perhaps I'm misreading this, but Firefly sucks and is overrated...because there are no Asians in the main cast? Am I missing how that's at all relevant to anything?
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