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6/18/2025, 5:05:53 PM
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The utopian aspect of Star Trek is the background against which all of the drama of Trek unfolds. It's a crucial part of the human element of any Star Trek story, part of the human identity.
But it's always been vague and never really fleshed out because it was a Roddenberry thing, something he ardently insisted on, and he died. A lot of his other insistences were dropped -- that there could be no arguing on the ship, no interpersonal drama whatsoever -- but the utopic element of human existence is something that should never be abandoned, at least in the TNG+ timeline.
You can set very serious drama against that backdrop but you never fuck with the backdrop itself -- that is a big mistake Nu Trek made and why it doesn't feel like Star Trek.
The utopian aspect of Star Trek is the background against which all of the drama of Trek unfolds. It's a crucial part of the human element of any Star Trek story, part of the human identity.
But it's always been vague and never really fleshed out because it was a Roddenberry thing, something he ardently insisted on, and he died. A lot of his other insistences were dropped -- that there could be no arguing on the ship, no interpersonal drama whatsoever -- but the utopic element of human existence is something that should never be abandoned, at least in the TNG+ timeline.
You can set very serious drama against that backdrop but you never fuck with the backdrop itself -- that is a big mistake Nu Trek made and why it doesn't feel like Star Trek.
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