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[QUOTE]Originally posted by MrNeutron: [QB] I'm glad to see this discussion, because it's relevant to the reasons I gave up watching Star Trek in any form on a regular basis. My best friend and I found ourselves watching episodes and 9 times out of 10 saying, "that was an interesting idea, but they didn't take it anywhere. I gave up on TNG about midway through the 4th season, and almost every time I've tuned into any Star Trek show since I'm usually disappointed. It's just not inventive enough for me. I think Hill Street Blues as a comparison is an apt one. Television had changed a lot since the 60s, and there were a lot of topics that even mainstream dramas could touch. Given that, one could expect that an "allegory" show like TNG could go even further, if not every week, at least once in a while. Quite the opposite. TNG played it so safe that their "message" episodes had less bite than an "ABC After School Special". Hill Street Blues, which is one of the few shows I ever wanted to see every episode of, dealt with all kinds of issues. Racism, fraternization, cultural insensitivity, the delicate balance between protecting people and stomping all over their rights. The characters often had really complex relationships as well. Characters died too, and not as the central focus of the story, but as a part of life "ont he Hill". I particularly remember the sledgehammer ending of one late-series episode where, in the final two minutes, a series regular was suddenly and brutally killed, and you were left there in shock just like the characters on the show. The dangers of space exploration should have been even greater (and don't throw "Skin of Evil" at me or I'll be forced to puke up something even naster than Armus!). I'm not asking Star Trek to be Hill Street Blues, but Blues wasn't the only show pushing such boundaries. TNG was milquetoast by comparison. Hell, "progressive" show that it was, it couldn't even be brave enough to have one gay crewman on the ship in seven bleeding years. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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