If I could bring just one of these things into existence for the world it would definitely be the replicator, though I am not sure we have nearly enough power to supply it. Energy can become matter but it takes a fuckton of it to make a tiny amount.
But if this is about personal usage then I’m going with the holodeck. I’m not really hurting for material things. But manufacture any experience I want? I’ll take that.
My jaw was only the floor anytime the Klingons were on screen. They’re supposed to be these formidable warriors, not lisping fish people who talk at 3/4 speed.
In a sense, we were ministers. And I have heard now so many times from individuals who have been honest enough and brave enough to tell me aspects of their life, of their health, of their mental health. And how it was all saved and improved by watching every week.
Martin: How did that sit with you? That’s an awful lot of responsibility to be that. I mean, you’re an actor in a show and people ascribe to you this wisdom, you’re a moral compass for them.
I love how this mocks his display of anger and also the fact that he has little ships to begin with. There’s Picard being all ragey and dramatic and in 5 words she turns him into a little boy.
The entire show is a crazy mess IMHO. But then I didn’t really enjoy the books either, so I must be a subhuman. Commence the downvotes! I’ll show myself out.
(It is nice to get an update on Dawson’s career though and I’m excited to see she made the jump to directing - never knew that).
I continue to be the only person who likes Insurrection. It was like a long episode.
Nemesis failed because it tried to go big and epic and cinematic with the Picard identity crisis. But insurrection was just a story about a planet with a cool anti-aging field that has some internal problems they ultimately needed help resolving.
I’ll bet that any TOS fans who were furious at the time probably did not go on to like the show. If they were looking for that witty love/hate triangle of Spock/Kirk/McCoy they didn’t get it.
But as the name suggests, TNG reached a totally new generation of fans. American culture had changed a LOT between these two shows and anyone attached to the old one was either old themselves or hooked on reruns.
TNG didn’t slap big right away, either. It took time to get good and find its audience. But I’m so glad they succeeded.
I say all this to point out that angry fans weren’t actually wrong. The Trek they knew was never coming back. It became a whole other thing for a whole other group of people.
The difference between this and, say, the Star Wars sequels is that those sequels disappointed fans AND failed to find a new audience that was just as dedicated and even larger.
People like to use this article to show that angry fans are just idiots- always there and usually wrong. But the TNG miracle hasn’t been repeated many times, if ever, by any of these other franchise rehashes that a Hollywood has shoved out to grab for cash.