Comment on Anyone else out there who actually really loved Discovery's S1 style of Klingons?
Supervisor194@lemmy.world 1 year ago
No.
If STD wanted to do something different, then they should have gone 300 years into the future beyond TNG and done something different.
Since Enterprise I have hated that all the new Trek properties have been prequels. The people who are now responsible for Trek either do not trust themselves enough to come up with original ideas or (more likely) have a significant disdain for the property to begin with and don’t want to come up with original ideas, for fear of being taken for someone who might do such a thing (ie: nerds).
Thus they can push the property forward supposedly building on the ideas of others, but in order to foist the appearance of originality on everybody in the face of this, they drastically - and without explanation - alter fundamental aspects of the source material. They do this apparently not imagining there will be a backlash. The inability to imagine a backlash can only come from their personal and fundamental dislike for the source material. They either find it so goofy and ridiculous that they can’t imagine anyone else would be passionate about it - or (again, more likely) they find themselves so superior to the source material in their own minds that no matter what they do, they are certain it will be seen as an improvement. Even if it isn’t seen that way, they don’t care, again, because fucking nerds.
Klingons are a thing. Extremely well developed, lots of interesting lore. OK, so these new aliens are more scary. They’re more dangerous. They’re more like warriors. Fine. Put them on a different planet 300 years in the future and stop shitting on the past. Same thing with your stupid fucking mushroom drive hooked up to tardigrade nipples, you dipshits.
Trekman10@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Yeah, I really think a lot of the support for the Klingon redesign and other revisionist aspects of Discovery/the current era of trek it spawned comes from a "but the Original Series is cringe fail and LAME. We have to make cool science fiction action shows for the modern era and couldn’t possibly respect such an old show.
ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 1 year ago
Huge if true. Can you provide some examples of people saying that? I can’t seem to find any in this thread.
Trekman10@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I’ve yet to find any rule stating only that which was commented on this post is valid evidence. You’d have to have your head in the sand to miss that the current iteration of Star Trek stems back to the 2009 reboot movie which literally was marketed as “its not your father’s Star Trek” and who’s director continually complained that he found TNG and TOS to be “too cerebral”. Alex Kurtzman, the guy in charge now, entered the franchise with '09. I don’t think he’s got the same mentality per se, but given that pre-Kurtzman trek saw past sets and props faithfully recreated and even celebrated (Relics from TNG, Trials and Tribble-ations from DS9, In a Mirror Darkly from ENT), while the current iteration, with a few exceptions (Beyond, Lower Decks, Prodigy), feels almost embarassed that it’s a spinoff of a campy show.
CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 1 year ago
Plus with the success of The Orville, it shows that you don’t need to do a ‘gritty reboot’ to be successful in modern times. The Orville is basically off-brand TNG.