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I like to joke around that bones supposedly being with his wife the entire post 5 year mission as written in tmp novelization might just be jim kirk not wanting to accept any other possibility but there's also a lot to consider when you think about mccoy as an extension of how jim feels about the enterprise. jim is very possessive of the enterprise and he tends to be very possessive of his friends, largely of mccoy because mccoy is so willing to tolerate it. and for a while that works out for them. being on top of jim's various neuroses is a literal part of mccoy's job description and he spends a lot of time trying to explain to starfleet that jim is physically incapable of life outside a starship, like not fit for medical clearance incapable. so it's really interesting to think then about jim in tmp novelization and the copious descriptions of his desire and want for the enterprise, comparing it to how a man would lust after a woman, the sheer anger at the idea of that ship being anyone's but his own when he figures out that decker is going to be in charge of the mission. and then compare that to how he interacts with mccoy and how shatner plays that scene almost full of the same sort of anger and frustration that mccoy would be anywhere else, dare I say the implication that mccoy would belong to or with his literal wife natira instead of him. and this is not even the first time it comes up; he's constantly glowering at both of them throughout for the world is hollow and I have touched the sky, as if the very idea that not only would mccoy leave him, but he'd leave him for someone he'd just met, even if they are good for each other, is a completely unacceptable scenario.
jim kirk's control issues are just very interesting to think about.
(+ this is not even getting to the fact that when he is on earth seeing a new doctor, one of the biggest things emphasized about their relationship is that they're regularly having sex. just a lot to consider there if we're viewing that as an extension of mccoy and kirk's relationship)
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Average Deep Space Nine A plot: "What are you willing to sacrifice for the chance at a better world? Who are you willing to hurt? Will the pain you cause now outweigh the peace that it might bring? When both choices are bad, and you do what you think is best, can you live with yourself after? Could you live with yourself if you made the opposite choice?"
Average Deep Space Nine B plot: "What do we do with all this hot sauce!?"
look at my captain dawg im cooked
I'm going to rant for a minute about star trek and scientific communication.
something that really irks me about star trek now is how blase it gets about the science part of science fiction.
say what you will about the old shows, but you can watch episodes like devil in the dark in tos, the terratin incident in tas, unnatural selection in tng, or once upon a time in voy and get real scientific theories and ideas out of them which have been part of speculation in both fiction and literature for decades. and even with episodes like genesis in tng, where we now know introns aren't evolutionary holdovers, these episodes serve as a time capsule for what the prominent ideas of stem fields were at the time. it's worth remembering that tos was written in a time where watson and crick's now widely accepted central dogma was still a controversial idea in scientific circles.
so for me, the new shows are frustrating because half the time, it's passing off pseudoscience as science fact (grounding in beta test for example) or just is plain factually incorrect if you bother to go look up what they're talking about (most blatant example i can think of is in the vulcan hello, but it keeps happening). part of what I love about the old shows is that they were willing to play with speculation and prominent theories of the time, and you could go look them up and see what people in these fields were actually thinking about and how that inspired the writing on these shows. if you look the ideas these shows discuss up now, you're not going to get much of anything (and i know because i'm the type of nerd to go and check </3).
and then the other half of the time, when the science does have some basis in reality such as quantum mechanics influencing macromolecular events as is described in context is for kings, the characters deliver the information in a really condescending and rude way, as if both the characters and the audience should have known better (+ i know this character and event in particular is meant to be condescending, so i'll also mention this happens in a few episodes of snw as well). which is also frustrating!! when characters explain these concepts in the older shows, it's also assumed the characters being explained to wouldn’t know, but the delivery is usually a little more understanding of that fact or even full of excitement for getting to explain that concept. which i think does better generally for getting these ideas across for a modern audience who is (sadly) already distrustful of science and who largely view scientists as out for themselves and arrogant.
and then on top of all of that, shows like snw (especially in a space adventure hour) like to mock and make fun of the science of shows like tos. historically the older trek shows have had science consultants and oftentimes were better at disseminating scientific ideas to the public than the new shows are (even with science consultants still being on the show).
I think it's frustrating! I loathe that the common perception star trek as a franchise, especially in the older stuff, is that it is completely worthless as a text for trying to introduce scientific concepts or somehow riddled with inaccuracies. it's been a mirror of the science of its times, and usually a pretty good mirror! not to mention that a lot of the things we think about now in terms of science across all disciplines was at least in part inspired by some of what shows like tos envisioned for the future. I wish the new shows would take advantage of the science part of science fiction more! we know so much more and still have so much to learn, so there's a lot of room here!
just frustrating to me personally...
Yesssss! I love the "hard" sci-fi concepts of the older shows. One of my favorite TNG episodes is the one where they discover a Dyson's sphere.
The episode does a great job at explaining the concept and thus also shows the audience why the crew is so fascinated by the construct.
(It also made me read a hell of a lot of physics Wikipedia articles that I'd never had read otherwise.)
I really loath that they dropped the "science" part so much in the newer shows. Sorry, not sorry, but I think it's part of the inferior writing. The authors don't come up anymore with scientific problems, solving them with scientific solutions. Instead, they twist and turn the "science" until it fits their writing.
Otherwise, I can't explain what the heck the science consultants are doing on the newer shows.
(To be honest, I had assumed there weren't any science consultants anymore. I mean, why bother, if you don't listen to them anyway?)
I really liked Starfleet Academy for many reasons and think that the character writing and plot development was very solid again but the science aspect was, unfortunately, still more than lacking.
In many of the newer Star Trek episodes, the depicted technology is so far removed from any real life science that they might as well use magic - which isn't Star Trek for me.
If I had to pinpoint the beginning of the decline, I think the problem started with the Kelvin films and the bubble of "red matter" that destroys a whole planet.
The "science as magic" approach (bad writing for Star Trek imo) also causes a lot of "deus ex machina" endings which are, again, considered bad writing.
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"doesn't this charater under insane stress going through extremely traumatic events realize how inconvenient their irrational emotional reactions are to the people around them?" well, see, you're not gonna believe this, but the thing is,
next person i catch saying "umm actually this (male fictional character) is a bottom because hes PATHETIC 🤣" is getting an axe to the back of the head. explain to me why you think being sexually penetrated is an inherent demeaning act reserved only for those you see as weak without being misogynistic &/or homophobic. quickly
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rlly fascinating phenomenon to me is when a character is extremely popular, and that popularity seems understandable enough because they've got something interesting going on, and then you look at the fandom and realize 99% of their fans don't actually care about engaging with any of the things that make them interesting and instead seem to be fans of an imaginary milquetoast version that exists solely for ship and/or angst content and is so far removed from the canon character they might as well be an unrelated OC at this point
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Rb with your job, wtf do you people do while offline???
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how they wrote out jadzia was evil but I do think about the reality of existing as ezri dax every day