Comment on Interview: Tawny Newsome On Finding The Sweet Spot For Her Star Trek Workplace Comedy

• semisimian@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s a comedy, so I hope so too! I imagine the planet, being a vacation/pleasure planet, will have a lot of kinks that are taboo to the Federation and that’s where you will find the narrative tension as they apply for membership. The planet will have a constitution at odds with the Fed, full of kinks. They might welcome species that have kinks not outlined in said constitution. They might welcome federation citizens that are exploring their non-Fed kinks on this planet.

  We’ve seen plenty of criticism of the Federation’s nanny-state. Lately, that criticism has come from the writers of the shows who seem to have lost the narrative that the Federation is our ideal. Sure, it has issues, but none of us should be ashamed of reaching for utopia. I hope the new show is a continuation of the SNW and Prodigy reboot of a less cynical Trek.

  source

  • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Any show that tries to paint the federation as less than aspirational has entirely missed the point of trek, and the product is a stillbirth.

    Pointing out flaws, or highlighting the morally grey areas like ds9 did is fine, because it still preserves the federation as a multicultural utopia.

    source