Talk space socialism to me. Was recently rewatching a few series with my fiance, both old and new Trek, and we both feel like Deep Space 9 is our favorite series (closely followed by TNG).
Everything else in order from best-to-worst would be:
Deep Space 9
The Next Generation
Voyage Home
Wrath of Khan
Undiscovered Country
Enterprise
Picard Season 3
Lower Decks
Voyager
Prodigy
Motion Picture
Strange New Worlds
Post too long. Click here to view the full text.>>47058The real premise of Star Trek is that it has no premise at all, it's just a writer's free-for-all where an episode can be about literally anything - spaceship battles, courtroom drama, medieval jousts, cowboy shootouts, detective noir, parallel universes, time travel, etc. Probably less than 10% of all Star Trek episodes have anything to do with trekking through the stars.
Feels like I'm necroing this thread but Redlettermedia just uploaded a "part-1 review" of the first season from DS9. I watched it, and it's pretty great.
Really like seeing these guys reminiscing about the time when you could watch good shit on the television.
Star Trek is a dead franchise at this point. It will never return to being good because being "progressive" is now the core part of it's marketing DNA, and being "progressive" now means being a dysgenic fucking Tumblrite retard with 4 personality disorders, autism, adhd, DID who thinks that being professional or working hard is "ableism".
TNG is definitely Communistic, Majel said that Gene was a Maoist (probably part of the woo 70s Maoist left) so you can definitely see Communistic traits in the world building of the TOS films and especially TNG, but remember, back then the positive image of being a Communist pushed by the Communist world was literally, people working hard, people being very professional, uplifiting stuff like ballet, opera, classical music, classical literature etc up notice that in Classic Star Trek, TV is a dead medium and people do classical arts instead, this is because it's supposed to be an enlightened society of professionals, the people that Fraiser Crane wants to be, but instead NuTrek is all neurodivergent, incompetent spastics, meanwhile Wokies cheer it on while the franchise doesn't even hit 100k viewers according to streaming numbers.
It's also just clear they are not interested in making Star Trek. 7 shows now and not a single fucking one has been a classic actual Star Trek show where people act like actual Star Trek characters.
Worf is a really interesting character. He's a Klingon that knows nothing about Klingons except what he learns through the lens of the federation. So on the one hand, he learns all the rules to being a klingon, but none of the exceptions to the rules, and he ends up becoming the most Klingon Klingon.
What I mean is his main narrative arc in TNG involves him colliding head on with the contradictions of Klingon society. He's internalized a rigid, highly inflexible code of honor that other Klingons kind of respect but also find pretty bewildering. He's willing to take discommendation in service of the empire when it's strongly implied that no other Klingon would be willing to. At the same thing, it's recognized that this honorable act is in service of covering up another house's dishonor. Eventually it all leads to a civil war, which instead of purifying the empire only solidifies these contradictions, which Worf also finds incomprehensible, as highlighted by the scene when he's in a bar with his brother Kern, whose busy drinking with warriors from the enemy faction.
It's also pretty interesting how Worf ends up becoming what is probably the most important Klingon of the century. He participates and ends up deciding two separate succession crises by killing corrupt chancellors and even restores the office of the emperor, before putting his own adoptive house in the position of the chancellorship.
It's a shame that none of this was really followed up on post ds9. Worf single handedly positioned himself to rejuvenate the dying Klingon empire, and all that was killed in its crib by the tng movies and abramslop.