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August 14, 2016

“To timidly avoid going where just about everyone else has already been.”

Star Trek is having trouble because it’s in denial of the worthiness of the instinct of self-preservation.
What it really needs is good old-fashioned submarine warfare — which Wrath of Khan did have, and which elevated at least one old episode to true greatness. The producers, in their current mindset, won’t green-light this. It would shrug off the hipster mentality that says all life forms are equally worthy, and sometimes the gazelle should stumble so the lion can have a decent meal. That’s not the way it used to work. It used to be, “They’re coming for us, it’s us or them” was sufficient to establish the roles of good guy and bad guy. Today you can’t do that. The lives that are at stake have to be truly innocent, at a distance, multiple in number, and most important of all…strangers. The bad guy’s not coming for you, he’s coming for Boston, or London, or Africa or India, or that solar system over there, or Earth, or the Yorktown, or… House of Eratosthenes

Posted by gerardvanderleun at August 14, 2016 10:07 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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