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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Balaam Xumucane: [QB] Recks: well I thought it was a funny thought. TNG may not have been breaking new ground in Science Fiction literature, but for mainstream weekly television that occurs during prime time, it was pretty progressive. It exposed a lot of people who may not have ever heard of Stanislaw Lem or maybe even Asimov to ideas they hadn't really thought about before. It's easy for Ellison and the rest of us to derride it for not pushing too far, but you have to understand that they also need to make a show to which the public at large can relate. That watering down might be irritating to the truly sci-fi nerdy among us (I'm looking at you, Simon) (I'm also looking at me and, well, pretty much everyone who participates in any semi-regular way in an on-line forum for discussing science-fiction), but its what let these shows stay on the air. Star Trek is something of an aberrant success story in the saga of episodic television. Is it ever going to be Paramount's answer to Friends? No. Is it going to let us see some pretty cool ideas in between the cracks of the ever-mounting piles of schlock? Yes. And the main reason DS9 did not suceed was that it was set on a space station (as the right honorable Mr. Topher pointed out). It was worth a shot, and hey that hoopy Joe Straczynski had a great idea well worth ripping off. Even though we were often treated to exotic locales every other Ep, we never had a starship visiting strange and bizarre new star-systems every week. That's why they needed the Defiant. By then to was too late. People saw soap-opera. People saw Kira's loyalties tested every episode. People saw that guy from Benson as an extremely unimaginative shapeshifter. People saw Avery Brooks not playing a cool character until later seasons. So I was pretty excited about Voyager initially. We were going to be exploring new places with new aliens and new technologies with zero possibility of contact with the familiar settings of UFP proper. Alas, Kate Mulgrew kind of grated on the nerves sometimes (she did grow on me), but I think they lost a lot of people right there. They tried to develop the wrong characters and didn't explore the right ones nearly enough. I'm one of the fan-boys who liked Seven,(Have you guys ever noticed that Bebe is so cool and funny?), but the resurrection of the spectre of Borg always seemed a desperation move to me. 'Equinox' was really really good, but people tuning in for the first time probably might not get that. I think Enterprise has a lot of potential, but so far I've been pretty unimpressed. I haven't seen them forging ahead into unexplored territory. I haven't seen characterization that pushes the limits. I haven't even seen visuals to rival the Dominion War stuff from DS9. But it's still the first season. I'm sure I'll probably watch the whole thing. I just don't know that it's ever going to attain the popular success of TNG. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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