Comment on Patrick Stewart Reflects on 'Star Trek' at 60: Why He Wants More Spinoffs
T156@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Odd headline, since the quoted interview bits don’t actually say anything to do with wanting more spin-offs. But it shouldn’t be that surprising. Who doesn’t want to earn more money?
If there are spin-offs, it should be something new, rather than being tied to the past. Trek suffers a bit from nostalgia, and being over-reliant on it is one of the franchise’s biggest weaknesses.
There’s really good show material just looking at and dealing with the Federation’s bias towards organic humanoids, for example. We see it pop up repeatedly across multiple shows, where Starfleet/the Federation are perfectly happy allowing/doing things for non-humanoid/non-organic species that they would never have allowed if they weren’t.
Repurposing the EMH MK. I units for dilithium mining, compelling Maddox to use the information he learned about Data to create an explicitly lobotomised version to use as a workforce, or ordering Picard to deploy a memetic virus designed to kill all the Borg, for example. The Federation would never have done that to its humans, and the closest match would be more like something the Dominion would do. But since none of them are organic humanoids, all is okay.