Re: Trek treatment is out.

On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 07:57:27 +0000 (UTC), Neil B
<goateebloke@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Josh Hill wrote:
That's one of the things Roddenberry got right in Next Generation, I
think: everything had to be new. I think it's crucial not to fall into
the nostalgia/we-grew-up-watching-this-fan trap the way Enterprise
did.

It's interesting you should say that because IMO the first season of TNG
was very much like the 60's show but with 80's production values. The
women on the program, especially, were treated with much the same
lascivious eye that they were for much of the time on the original
Enterprise, and as for everything being new... one episode was a
straight-up remake of the original's 'The Naked Time'. It wasn't until
TNG shed this malaise that the show really took off. I find a lot of the
first season almost completely unpalatable, I have to say. :(

Agree about the first season. As Isaac Asimov said at the time, they
lacked stories . . . and IIRC there was a fair amount of discord in
house, with D. C. Fontana leaving.

Counselor Troi, while a sex object, also had a real job, unlike Yeoman
Rand. I remember reading at the time someone from the show saying that
you can't do a Yeoman Rand anymore. So the times they were a-changing,
only I found myself more bothered by the hypocritical attempt to
pretend it was something else than by the original unabashed leg
display. Seven of Nine was even worse, and I heard that . . . well,
never mind what I heard, other than that it represented Hollywood
casting practices at their best. ;-)

--
Josh

"I love it when I'm around the country club, and I hear people talking about the debilitating
effects of a welfare society. At the same time, they leave their kids a lifetime and beyond
of food stamps. Instead of having a welfare officer, they have a trust officer. And instead
of food stamps, they have stocks and bonds."

- Warren Buffett

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