remember when star trek was like.... simple?
like in dsc there’s so much complexity so fast. it leads to characters getting really inconsistent because they’re trying to make the story so plot-heavy as well to keep people interested, which in turn forces the writers to give up character development for the sake of pushing the plot forward. don’t get me wrong, dsc is the most diverse and inclusive star trek we’ve ever seen and i love it for that.
but like... remember when an episode of Star Trek didn’t look like the tags section of an ao3 fic?
i mean... the plots all used to be like
starfleet holding that trial about whether data was—or deserved to be—his own person at all, and all his enterprise crewmates coming together to defend his autonomy? that he was more than just a machine despite his origins?
the planet where wesley falls into a bush and is sentenced to death, bringing up the question of what makes a perfect society when people are inherently flawed?
in ds9 where quark gets misdiagnosed with like 6 days to live and he pre-sells his freeze-dried body then finds out he’s not going to die, prompting him then to hire garak as an assassin, only to decide not to go through with the “irrevocable” deal and then having to sell his bar to pay for it, but then his ds9 friends help him out of his debt, thereby teaching him that life’s still worth living even if he loses his identity as a ferengi because in the end his choices are what defines him and not merely his culture??
the sheer diversity of topics and questions that revolve around concepts, rather than always conflicts? to me, that’s real star trek.
i want another star trek series that’s simple, with simple characters and simple questions and hella complex answers.
i want a star trek that makes me think.
