Well, not every member of the LGBTQ adores this movie:

With regard to the depiction of Troi - yes, a few episodes in the show runners seemed to discover she had cleavage, and her character’s IQ and capability nosedived, along with the neckline of her uniform. It wasn’t until season 5 or 6 that she was allowed to wear the regular uni.

It was a beautiful dream that made the characters very difficult to write for. Most people who write drama will tell you that conflict - usually of the interpersonal variety - is at the center of good drama. Without it, the first two seasons relied very heavily on a “monster of the week” format.

Well, Roddenberry pitched Star Trek as “Wagon Train To The Stars,” so that actually makes some sense. Contrast this with the first two seasons of TNG, where Roddenberry had decided that by the 24th century humans would have advanced beyond ever having interpersonal conflicts with one another, and no human character on…

There’s a funny story in Walter Koenig’s book that appears on point here: Back in the 80's, in between making of the various films, Takei would call around to the other cast members asking about whether they’d heard anything about doing another sequel and whether they knew who would be in it. One time Koenig got a…

Goddamnit, is Shatner gonna outlive all of them? Everyone form a human shield around George Takei.

They did do this episode, wherein Kirk’s superior officer is portrayed by a black man:

The point of my initial post is that people are always looking backwards to a much more elegant and civilized age.

People used to dress up to go on airplanes.

“They resent him for that in the bizarre, way too personal parasocial way that the Way Too Online specialize in”

But the Hutts are among the biggest crime syndicates in the galaxy.

I think Mos Eisley spaceport was meant to be a significant hub of criminal activity relative to its location. Lots of quiet, rural places still have a town, part of town, or even just a street where the lowlifes hang out, where kids are warned to stay away from, etc. But I still don’t think it was meant to portray a…

To me it always looked more like a guy in a trashcan. Because that’s what it was.

The technology is all the same and hasn’t advanced much in the last 30 years...

Biosyn... Ingen... they’re small potatoes. I take Biocarbon Amalgamate over both. 

Yeah, I read that and was like, "Huh?" 

Probably opens up a cast spot in the process.

[B]ut isn’t it all basically just two girls in love with a football player and a guy who eats hamburgers?

I never really got the whole point of this: “Let’s do a show with people who have the same names as the people in Archie’s comics. Except that they aren’t actually very much like the people in the Archie’s comics. Nor are the storylines very similar, either.”

For me the problem with this show is that it gets too monotonous. Yeah, I get it: Human beings are really shitty, and they excel at creating technologies that make their lives even shittier and make it easy to be shitty to other people. We’re all living that; the case for using precious minutes of our viewing time to…