"Bruce Palmer" wrote in message
.net...

That's not right. They've tied Vulcan mind melding into homosexuality?
Not
right at all. Brannon and Braga (and Piller to some extent) have screwed
Star
Trek big time and Paramount doesn't care as long as they can sell it to
advertisers, er, uh, I mean "networks". Rodenberry is dizzy by now.

Remember when ST was inspiring? I do. I designed my own starships and gave
them original names and NCC numbers. I dreamed about going to faraway places
and doing cool stuff. My 14-year-old brother is at that same stage right
now... He's got some cool Star Trek video games to give him ideas (lucky
kid), but I can't say that modern ST ignites the imagination the same way
TNG did for me.

From my POV it's been basically the same dozen or so cliches recycled over
and over again for a long time. The cliches were occasional bumps in the
road during TNG and DS9, but Voyager to me was just one big cliche episode
after another... The cast, the plots, the character relationships,
everything was boring and PC and touchy-feely. I totally quit watching ST
after the first year or so of Voyager. Enterprise has made a partial
recovery, *finally* some refreshing stuff going on (glad to see some
hell-for-leather & guts again) but it's still got some whine-and-cheese
problems.

I think Brannon & Braga getting up and telling the fans off about anything
warrants a group beating. Contempt for the audience is a serious problem in
the modern media... It is never a good thing.

I hope I'm not rambling too much, I have admittedly been drinking. Just my
..02 on the Star Trek thing... I wonder if anybody's done a survey on how
Star Trek inspired people to work in the space program. You hear this often
when the subject comes up, but I wonder if numbers bear it out.