A bit of an odd approach to say that a show that 99% of people don’t know exists shouldn’t be Gene’s legacy. Seems like it’s just more likely to make people know about. A Space Streisand effect.
While it was not the masterpiece that Cleopatra 2525 was, the first season is kind of a look at some interesting ideas. It was written, developed, and produced by Robert Hewitt Wolfe, who had been a writer on Deep Space 9 for five years. I’m not going to say that first season is as good as DS9, but it is interesting looking at Roddenberry’s unfinished notes filtered through the sensibilities of a DS9 writer. Once Wolfe got pushed out by Sorbo and the network executives scummy maneuvering, the show turned into the dumpster fire that it is known as, at least among the people who know it exists in the first place.
I actually liked Andromeda, although a lot of the acting was just terrible. But I always enjoy Lexa Doig and Gordon Michael Woolvett as Seamus was fun.
But my god, the smugness just pours off of Kevin Sorbo.
I don’t remember much about the show, but I do remember there was a distinct tone shift in, I want to say, season 2 that made me go from “skeptical but willing” to “WTF is this bullshit?”
There’s a really fun mockumentary called Dark Side of the Moon which plays it (almost) totally straight about Stanley Kubrick faking the moon landing until the end credits when it shows all the “experts” cracking up. Really worth a watch if you can find it. It’s French but was filmed in English.
There’s a very low-quality version on YouTube. Not sure where else you can find it.
Kissinger, but very craftily edited to say what they wanted him to say instead of what he actually said. The filmmakers went very far to make it believable.
I don’t think Kirk’s expression works for this. It’s more accusatory where DiCaprio’s is trying to figure out from where you recognize something or a surprised revelation.
For anyone unaware, this joke references a conflation of the Spock we all know and love with Dr. Benjamin Spock, who wrote some of the most prominent books on child rearing. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Spock
I was (probably at some point willfully) unaware of this most of my childhood, and it was more fun to think about than the real thing. I miss the days when I could make up my own answers to references. :p
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Thanks for the clarification. Figured someone else would have more insight. Most of my soap knowledge comes from the trauma of waiting for my turn to watch something after my mother and sisters.
I recently read an interesting argument that the federation isn’t in fact communist, but basically something beyond our current economic concepts.
We have:
explicit self determination, individualism and self fulfillment are held in the highest regard, so much so that it is considered the objective of life to find personal fulfillment and in doing so, giving back to society
post scarcity economy, everyone can have any material need fulfilled at any time by virtue of replicators. Though many goods and commodities are still produced in the traditional way to provide a better quality product (how is this limited amount allocated?)
Money is not used internally, but the federation has no objection to using it for commerce with other cultures. There is also indication for power tied credit system that federation citizens are subject to, for example for complex replication and transport
being a merchant or trader, or rather generally seeking profit and material wealth are, while considered outdated by most, not offensive or even illegal within the federation. There is plenty of evidence for private enterprise, for example the publishing studio that distributes the doctor’s holo novel in VOY
And many more, even contradictory to our current day minds, aspects that put the federation system and ideology someplace further than our current concepts.
It has always seemed to me that their society is what you’d get if the United States didn’t have billionaires hoarding 90% of the wealth. Allocate all of those resources fairly, reduce the population, add in some free electricity and replicators, and you have TNG.
They don’t have money, and other than Starfleet and The UFP council, they don’t seem to have government. I assume that someone is still administering France, since we do see France still exists, but they don’t refer to The US, because I don’t think the US survived to the 24th century. There’s an argument to be made that they’re mostly communist.
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