Thoughts on Star Trek

[nfotxn]

One thing I wonder about when watching Star Trek: Where the heck is the media? Seriously, with interstellar travel in a supposedly utopian society you'd think they'd have tons of music and art in general? Nope. Everybody's a fuckin' jazz or classical player. If they're into art they paint impressionist at the most risque.

Is there no 24th century punk rock? Apparently nobody's conveying feminist messages with their menses or tagging the walls Star Fleet head office in SF.

How fuckin' puritanical is that?! Screw you Star Trek!

Comments

[loganbeary.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've always wondered about that too.

Apparently the powers-that-be in the Trek Universe don't believe in contemporary art. Voyager deviated a little from that, but not much.

It's like all creativity died when the Federation was born and nostalgia reigns. Not really a future I look forward to.

[nfotxn.livejournal.com]

Admittedly they get a little better about potraying REAL human beings and culture as time goes on. Heck, in Enterprize they even have strippers *gasp*!

[aadroma.livejournal.com]

Yeah! Where are the 24th Century ravers and shit?! ^_^

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[ranger1.livejournal.com]

Zooty zoot zoot

[deafeuphoria.livejournal.com]

haha, seriously.
i always kind of thought of the star trek world as a post '1984', where most had been brainwashed and their spawn raised that way and most of the control was taken away or something. <];D

[notofthisworld.livejournal.com]

Heh. Uh oh, Brodie's finally lost it.

Damn that Star Trek for its misrepresentation of the future!

I watch it for its gritty realism.

[bremo.livejournal.com]

This totally geeks me out, but there is an episode with a race called Talarians in which this kid is taken by the enterprise crew for allegedly being beaten by his father (acceptable in his culture). One bit where the kid is pissed off, he loudly plays music in his room that sounds something between industrial and 12 tone. Only real example of it I can think of.

On the bright side, at least they seem to have eliminated advertising. ;)

newsflash: Star Trek has always sucked

[clauditorium.livejournal.com]

Dude, you're just realizing now what a bland 'utopia' Star Trek presents us with? The dearth of media is only the tip of the iceberg. Have you noticed how antiseptic all the sets are, and how no human is allowed any interesting personality traits on those shows (except the last edition, because it takes place before humankind became 'perfect')?

[jenneferre.livejournal.com]

In the future people will realize that classical music is the only true form =)

[nfotxn.livejournal.com]

Yes, and that viola players are the master race.

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[jenneferre.livejournal.com]

And that I am God.

[timsimms.livejournal.com]

I can't speak for the musical aspects of Trek, but as far as political points of view, the media, and the such are concerned:

1) There is media--re: Sisko's son toward the end of the series when he was a war reporter

2) There were alternate views expressed in several eps, even 'risque' ones)--re" the ep where dax meets the woman she was with in her past host, when she was a he...there was a nice lesbian kiss in that ep...other than that they're pretty conformist

3) And speaking of conformist, you have to remember that Star Fleet is a military-oriented operation. When the Federation went to war with the changlings, there was that ep where star fleet officers were put everywhere on earth when martial law was declared. Being a military operation (in the future), I'm sure there is a lot more civil control and a lot more conformity to avoid possible consequences.

4) Along with that, there had been the civil protests year before when there was the whole thing about quarantining poor and indigent people in 'camps'. So people learned to live peacefully after WW3 and the protests.

Either that or the creators and writers are all a bunch of Conservative-wannabes :)