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Where do I start Star Trek
posted 1 year ago by PresidentBossk3562 1 year ago by PresidentBossk3562 +32 / -1

Question above. My only experience is with a handful of episodes from the original series. They were OK, but I'm not sure I want to watch the whole thing. It's a little too low budget for me. Can I just jump into the movies or one of the later series?

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– dagthegnome 2 points 1 year ago +4 / -2

I disagree about DS9. The discovery of the Gamma Quadrant Wormhole leads to a confrontation with a powerful, relentless enemy that's more technologically advanced than the Federation and leads to a years-long story arc that is pretty consistent, where fighting the war forces the DS9 crew and the Federation to question and reaffirm their commitment to the ideals that underpin their whole civilization and way of living. The whole Section 31 arc, the idea that Federation expansionism created more problems than it solved: a whole lot of that was explicitly anti-statist. Gene Roddenberry was too much of a pie-in-the-sky lefty futurist to have ever allowed that to go ahead while he was alive.

And even before that, the discovery of the wormhole and its connection to the Bajoran religion, the portrayal of the Bajorans as a hardened, jaded people recovering from a military occupation which they themselves fought to a stalemate with almost no help from the Federation, the constant assertion that their religion is the only thing holding them together: all of that is the opposite of woke. Even the portrayal of the Pa-Raiths as seeking to rule through corruption and subversion while the Prophets were the ones who largely expect you to solve your own problems was much more in tune with traditional Christianity than any leftist interpretation of it usually is.

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– fauxgnaws 2 points 1 year ago +4 / -2

That's a lot of words to say "Federation bad". Basically, a Picard-light version of Star Trek.

In fact one of the things people always cite is Sisko agreeing to let somebody go then killing them anyway 'for the greater good'... or something like that.

That's great if you like the Federation pulling people's eyes out as torture for fun. That kind of navel grazing introspection of the dark side happened because they couldn't "go where no man has gone before" since it's set in a fixed place with no story.

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– dagthegnome 0 points 1 year ago +2 / -2

You sure like to read a lot of things that aren't there.

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