But part of the problem with Insurrection was that it wasn’t ambitious enough compared to the “bad” TOS movies.
TMP is spacious and filled with great visuals; it isn’t a plot that would work as an episode.
The Search for Spock is the middle of a great trilogy and sets up a personal grudge for Kirk that pays off in Undiscovered Country. The movie pushed characters along; the closest in Insurrection is the eventual marriage of Riker and Troi but it doesn’t play out in the movies.
The Final Frontier has Kirk yell “What does God need with a starship”.
But it didn’t feel really earned. I feel like a Reman enemy or a Romulan captain that Picard faced in TNG would have been better. Hell, bring back Denise Crosby as Sela; her plotting to take over the Romulan Star Empire would have made sense.
The only decent tactic I found is to focus on having the government being the arbitor of who is a good person.
You also have to argue against the programming that relying on any unearned government assistance is bad. So, the best way to respond is asking if there should be a qualification that anyone working shouldn’t get the same benefits of someone who is broke.
It isn’t perfect, though. There is also a lot of tribalism.
Yeah, both sides aren’t the same. How do you deal with the 20% of the country that want a fascist government and the 30% who are ok with it as long as it keeps taxes low and punish the “right people”?
I’m just venting in my reply to your comment; this isn’t a criticism of what you said.
That’s fine that people have lives outside of work, but employers aren’t paying people to have good lives. An employer isn’t going to self advocate for less productivity.
The issue may not be “just fine”, but which one is showing better results.
And some of the CEO’s are communicating why they think that full remote is failing. The Zoom CEO cited that Zoom meetings aren’t creating the environment for collaboration that in person meetings are. You can call him a liar, but he is giving a reason why he wants people back in the office.
And I think that this is happening across a lot of companies. It isn’t that working in the office is “good”, but it is apparently giving better results than the other option within their organization.
Coordination, mentoring, and culture are intentional.
They are, but you may have issues with keeping up these with full remote, where people don’t get all the social cues that they would get in an office.
Hell, listen to a lot of the criticism here. Executives and management are trying to “control” workers instead of blindly following individual productivity measurements, even if those individual productivity metrics may not be good for the company.
You may also have cases where the culture role was given to a senior member that no one longer listens to because there isn’t a direct chain of command and the duties aren’t made explicit to everyone.
Full remote can work, but I feel like a lot of companies are finding that it isn’t working as advertised compared to being in office and there isn’t a known way to do so that they can implement. So, they are going back.
Except that work is more than just tech companies and there are other industries with retention issues and they are still trying to get people back into the office because of coordination and training issues. In some cases, they have been far more aggressive than tech companies in this regard.
I’ve posted in other comments that a lot of the initial studies were based on self reporting surveys, not actual measurements of productivity. One study that used actual measurements from a call center later revised their report as there were issues found like increased call backs.
And as for in-person versus virtual, I’ve seen a lot of staff don’t ask as many questions online as they do in person, even with video conferencing and chat being widely available. You also have some cases where senior staff used to do mentoring and providing some technical direction on projects they aren’t working on no longer doing so either because full remote tends to push everything up to the lead, which ends up getting drowned in more communication than hybrid. Sure, the senior staff may be more productive by some metrics, but the department isn’t and senior management is going to to try to fix issues on the department level. And as others have noted, there is a shortage of qualified staff, so you can’t have everyone be senior staff.
If the CEO of Zoom is asking for staff to go back to the office, it may not just be a desire to control.
I find that a lot of people who defend full remote tend to speak past issues like coordination and mentoring. You may have some CEO’s seeing that people are doing individually productive work, but the organization as a whole isn’t productive.
DS9 was arguably anti-Trek, or at least seriously questioned the idea of the Federation as a force for only good in the realpolitik of the Alpha Quadrant.
I feel like the problem with Voyager and Enterprise was more that the writing wasn’t as good.