| Kirk vs Picard... classic example. |
[Dec. 11th, 2006|06:50 pm] |
I'm flipping through the television, and I come across a Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, and captain Picard is having a session with the ship's counselor in regard to weather his possibly starting a relationship with a female crewmember would be appropriate and professional or not.
Later that night, I'm flipping around and I catch a little bit of a classic Star Trek, and Kirk is fighting Kahn in the engineering deck, and he's running at Kahn, jumps up, lands one foot on Kahn's chest, throwing Kahn back and so on, they are just fighting hard core.
THIS is why I hate Star Trek, or at least post-Kirk Trek. Not that they didn't have some good, even great episodes or characters, but as a whole, my above example spells it out perfectly. I think the only reason I ever watched it was because there was no other real space set science fiction on television.
Now, the new (forget the old cheezy 1970's version) Battlestar Galactica is EXACTLY what I've been waiting for in space set television science fiction. Can't say enough good things about it. Character development. Concern that the good guys might actually die, and the bad guys are really bad and can do serious damage to the good guys who are really, really alone and far away from where they might be going. Star Trek: Voyager was the same thing, essentially, but of course their ship and crew always looked brand new and every crisis was solved within the last ten minutes of the show. And most of the time they were able to teach some ignorant race some vital moral lesson in the process. (Sounds like how liberals look on the average American). Galactica actually gets beat up in it's journey, the crew gets worn down and people actually die from their encounters with their enemy. The only enemy Voyager consistantly had were some bad Klingon imitations who couldn't do anything to scratch the paintjob on Voyager.
The music and special effects are far better than Voyager... it's not fair to say better, really since Galactica is newer, but the concepts and execution are for sure.
Anyway. There it is. |
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