Will Wheaton looks back at Trek...

odyssey06

The boy who used to be annoying brat Wesley Crusher has turned into a pretty funny blogger - check out his reviews of some early TNG eps at TVSquad.com:

http://www.tvsquad.com/2008/04/28/star-trek-the-next-generation-code-of-honor/

Some quotes:
We discover that the Ligonians are also descended directly from a 1940s pulp novel set in deepest, darkest Africa, and that they are amused to discover that the Enterprise's security chief is a woman. Oh good! We're going to be racist and sexist in this one!
...when I look back at "Code of Honor" and see that it came between "The Naked Now" and "The Last Outpost," I'm astonished that we weren't canceled by mid-season. In fact, if we hadn't been first-run syndication, and if the core audience of Trekkies hadn't been as patient as the Ligonians – not to mention incredibly forgiving – we almost certainly would have been.

Picard invites Wesley to sit at ops. Next to Geordi. In the middle of a major crisis... My god, a lot of the hate mail I used to get suddenly makes a whole lot of sense. I have never been more grateful that there wasn't liveblogging in 1987 as I am right now.

Sherifu

"Oh good! We're going to be racist and sexist in this one!"

Dellboy2007

I'm sorry but i really hate star trek, well, when i say i'm sorry i'm not really.

Sherifu

Dellboy2007 wrote: »

I'm sorry but i really hate star trek, well, when i say i'm sorry i'm not really.

May I ask why you came to the Star Trek forum then?

Dellboy2007

To get an insight into why people like it.

odyssey06

Because it's an optimistic view of our future, because starships look cool and so do nebulas, because it has lots of babes, beacuse it has heroes battling evil and facing challenges, because a starship crew is a team and some people want to be part of a team that values brains not athletic ability, because it's an escapist fantasy that takes you into outer space and away from your mundane job, or homework or day-to-day problems...

"It speaks to some basic human needs, that there is a tomorrow - it's not all going to be over in a big flash and a bomb, that the human race is improving, that we have things to be proud of as humans. No, ancient astronauts did not build the pyramids - human beings built them because they're clever and they work hard. And 'Star Trek' is about those things."
- Gene Roddenberry

"For me science fiction is a way of thinking, a way of logic that bypasses a lot of nonsense. It allows people to look directly at important subjects."
- Gene Roddenberry

"In the annals of science fiction, where dystopias rule the imaginative roost, Star Trek stood nearly alone in telling us that our future would be better than our past, that our common problems would be solved, that we, as a species, were fundamentally good, and that the universe would reward us for our goodness."
- Charles Shaar Murray and Mike Marqusee in "Prospect Magazine"

Sherifu

Dellboy2007 wrote: »

To get an insight into why people like it.

Ya, i'm sure that's it.