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Post A Reply Login Name: Password: Message: HTML is enabled. UBB Code™ is enabled. [QUOTE]Originally posted by kmart: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by PsyLiam: [qb] Everyone I knew loved replicators too. I mean, the holodeck was cool but got boring with the constant breakdowns, but replicators? Pure fun. What has caused this anti-replicator resentment within you, alternative-to-walmart? Did you have the patent, but evil Rob Justman broke into your house and stole it? And wee-weed all over your bed? [/qb][/QUOTE]24th Century is just way too far removed from reality for me, and not in a credible way. Technically, replication is not magic box/something for nothing, but it is so close that it comes off the same way. I also think you need to limit the number of out-there aspects in any future universe, or you build up anti-credibility. That thing Sam Hamm said about fantasy stories (adapting WATCHMEN, I think) was: you can have Tom Hanks as an android, or Tom Hanks in love with a mermaid. But if Tom Hanks is an android in love with a mermaid, you've got too many leaps of fantasy to sustain. NextGen and most ModernTrek (except DS9) plays like that. And for me, replication just makes things way too easy to solve ... problem issues that are and will remain major major issues for the forseeable future. By sidestepping all that, ModernTrek ignores a whole set of compelling dramatic scenarios that could play a lot more effectively than what they did instead (usually some masturbatory holodeck thing.) [/QB][/QUOTE]

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