Just because I'm starting to suspect that you're the kind of annoying Trekkie I didn't like when I considered myself a Trekkie — you're not actually giving Star Trek credit for actually advancing science and technology, right? You're not saying that cell phones exist because of the imaginary communicators on Star…

Dude, the cheese:"serious sci-fi" ratio in all of Star Trek but especially TOS is IMMENSE. It is NOT POSSIBLE to introduce a new person to Star Trek and not at least make mention of the cheesiness, and if you act like you're ashamed of the cheesiness or in denial about it you are going to have so much less success…

Dude, the cheese:"serious sci-fi" ratio in all of Star Trek but especially TOS is IMMENSE. It is NOT POSSIBLE to introduce a new person to Star Trek and not at least make mention of the cheesiness, and if you act like you're ashamed of the cheesiness or in denial about it you are going to have so much less success…

The reasons that your random modern-day TV watcher who clicks onto a random episode of Star Trek might be "alienated" go way beyond "Ew! Old!"

The reasons that your random modern-day TV watcher who clicks onto a random episode of Star Trek might be "alienated" go way beyond "Ew! Old!"

Anyone who doesn't realize that the USA is in many fundamental ways a totally different country now than it was in 1992 was just too young in 1992 to have been paying attention.

Anyone who doesn't realize that the USA is in many fundamental ways a totally different country now than it was in 1992 was just too young in 1992 to have been paying attention.

Anytime you have a question like that, the answer is that Q did it.

Anytime you have a question like that, the answer is that Q did it.

The handful of good Star Trek Enterprise episodes are even more blatant in that you must see them and no others — seeing the overall plot arcs that those episodes are part of will retroactively ruin them for you. (I feel the same way about my very favorite episodes of Dollhouse; "The Attic" is one of the best hours of…

The handful of good Star Trek Enterprise episodes are even more blatant in that you must see them and no others — seeing the overall plot arcs that those episodes are part of will retroactively ruin them for you. (I feel the same way about my very favorite episodes of Dollhouse; "The Attic" is one of the best hours of…

Some of the Borg stuff like Unimatrix Zero I genuinely found affecting and thoughtful. But I overall actually really disliked a lot of what they did with the Borg — completing the transformation of the Borg from a quasi-realistic look at a mechanized post-Singularity race to some kind of weirdo cyberpunk/goth vampires…

Some of the Borg stuff like Unimatrix Zero I genuinely found affecting and thoughtful. But I overall actually really disliked a lot of what they did with the Borg — completing the transformation of the Borg from a quasi-realistic look at a mechanized post-Singularity race to some kind of weirdo cyberpunk/goth vampires…

Trek has a problem with taking its women in authority and wanting to make them "warm" and "maternal".

Trek has a problem with taking its women in authority and wanting to make them "warm" and "maternal".

Roddenberry tells that story in a fairly self-serving way. I mean, yes, it was a big deal to have a woman basically be the secondary lead of the show, and yes, they were more comfortable with a man in that role.

Roddenberry tells that story in a fairly self-serving way. I mean, yes, it was a big deal to have a woman basically be the secondary lead of the show, and yes, they were more comfortable with a man in that role.

Yeah but it was long ago. I remembered thinking the arc of history that required her movement to fail and her to die was, in my view, bullshit but misremembered why (to be fair the whole "WWII Must Happen" thing is a very old and variously used trope in SF).

Yeah but it was long ago. I remembered thinking the arc of history that required her movement to fail and her to die was, in my view, bullshit but misremembered why (to be fair the whole "WWII Must Happen" thing is a very old and variously used trope in SF).

I know nothing about The Time Tunnel, but from the perspective of, say, race and gender relations, Star Trek is way way WAY more "forward-looking" than Wild Wild West, I Dream of Jeannie or Bewitched. Indeed it's by comparing Star Trek to the shows next to it that you can call it "forward-looking" despite the…