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on Tuesday November 03 2015, @05:41PM
from the where-no-internets-have-gone-before dept.
from the where-no-internets-have-gone-before dept.
Cut and pasted shamelessly from StarTrek.com:
"CBS Television Studios announced today it will launch a totally new Star Trek television series in January 2017."
"The brand-new Star Trek will introduce new characters seeking imaginative new worlds and new civilizations, while exploring the dramatic contemporary themes that have been a signature of the franchise since its inception in 1966."
"The new television series is not related to the upcoming feature film Star Trek Beyond which is scheduled to be distributed by Paramount Pictures in summer 2016."
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(Score: 2) by jmorris on Wednesday November 04 2015, @12:07AM
I'm not seeing the idealism is being all high and mighty and allowing an entire planet of sentient beings to die of a natural disaster. Picard could have saved that planet, was told he could save them and not even have to tell them he was saving them and thus not interfere with their natural development. Nope he just said "think of it as evolution in action", let them die. Like it was their fault their planet was horked up; they were too primitive to have caused it so there wasn't even the potential for a global warming sermon. Lets just sit up here on our plush arses and collect sensor reading of the planet going foom.
Then there was the even worse case on Enterprise in the second season. Planet sends out a ship to look for help with their plague problem and has the bad luck to find Enterprise. Again, Evolution in action, sucks to be you! Which was not only immoral but bad TV. The whole premise of Enterprise was it was to tell the early days of human spaceflight, the founding of the Federation, etc. Part of that should have been the idealistic helping that goes wrong that would lead to the Prime Directive being established. Instead, the very first time they encounter a species that the Directive might be construed to apply to they suddenly develop it on the spot. Lame.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Wednesday November 04 2015, @01:40AM
The second case was actually in the first season (coincidentally, I just watched it within the last week; s1e13). And Archer did seem rather out of character to just say "oh alright" under the circumstances.
Although T'Pol for the entire show so far had been telling him to stop trying to help people who didn't ask for it. So it wasn't making up the Prime Directive on the spot. Hell, half the species they ran into so far told them to GTFO. However the species in question *did* ask them for help.
The extra complication was that there was a second species who was immune to the disease that the first had been oppressing for a long time, who would due to evolution subsequently flourish. I suspect you forgot that part. Up until halfway through the episode, it was a "why aren't you helping these guys?" moment, until that.
I haven't seen that much of TNG so I couldn't comment on the other one.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"