It's usually a very slow show where the characters remain calm and professional because they are trained and prepared for crazy space shit and it's a job that each and every one of them is passionate about cause it's post scarcity, so badass isn't really a thing. It's more people have a meeting about the problem and execute a solution they agreed upon. It gets epic sometimes but a lot is just 'they find something in space and learn about it'. Deep Space 9 has a baseball episode, stakes aren't always super high. It's also generally slower paced and more dialogue heavy than most shows. When there's trouble they're methodical, and there isn't always trouble, there's slice of outer space life episodes and shit too.
I guess it kind of has a mystery element to it but The Inner Light is a good example of this. I will be spoiling it btw.
Picard gets hit by a beam from a satellite. Then it's just Picard living through a simulation of a dying world. He notices something is off but none in the bureaucracy will listen. He just sort of rolls with the simulation and had a family and learns the flute
It gets hotter and hotter and the world dries up and everyone dies. It turns out they're the ones who built the satellite as a way to preserve their civilisation historically.
No one gets saved. But Picard just learns about a long-dead civilisation.
Is this serious I can't tell anymore.
Pretty sure it's a joke about the Klingon redesign.
And the Ferengi redesign. And the Bolian redesign. And the Gorn redesign. And the upcoming Cardassian redesign.
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Which Star Trek is most often neither. Making good Trek requires ignoring a good amount of what usually makes good TV
That’s interesting, can you explain a bit more?
It's usually a very slow show where the characters remain calm and professional because they are trained and prepared for crazy space shit and it's a job that each and every one of them is passionate about cause it's post scarcity, so badass isn't really a thing. It's more people have a meeting about the problem and execute a solution they agreed upon. It gets epic sometimes but a lot is just 'they find something in space and learn about it'. Deep Space 9 has a baseball episode, stakes aren't always super high. It's also generally slower paced and more dialogue heavy than most shows. When there's trouble they're methodical, and there isn't always trouble, there's slice of outer space life episodes and shit too.
I guess it kind of has a mystery element to it but The Inner Light is a good example of this. I will be spoiling it btw.
Picard gets hit by a beam from a satellite. Then it's just Picard living through a simulation of a dying world. He notices something is off but none in the bureaucracy will listen. He just sort of rolls with the simulation and had a family and learns the flute
It gets hotter and hotter and the world dries up and everyone dies. It turns out they're the ones who built the satellite as a way to preserve their civilisation historically.
No one gets saved. But Picard just learns about a long-dead civilisation.
Pretty much every genre or type of story has been done in one Trek episode or another. I'm watching the DS9 Ocean's 11 homage right now
Thank you Number One, that was a good explanation :picard-pointing: