The captain always had to be right, the prime directive could not be breached for any reason.Īll this reached a horrible event horizon with Alliances when, to ensure Voyager’s survival, Janeway attempted to negotiate with an enemy race. Worse still, the show held the principles of the Federation – and by extension Rodenberry – as some kind of religious dogma, unwavering and immutable. Making them completely identical to the rest of the crew? Rubbish. Integrating Maquis freedom fighters into a Starfleet crew? Brilliant. Doing it by having the Captain protect a species with a lifespan shorter than my dog (oh the Ocampa)? Less so. Stranding the crew in the Delta Quadrant? Brilliant. Voyager was given every gift that the Star Trek universe had to offer and it mishandled every one of them.
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So when Voyager got flung into the Delta Quadrant it was now in a wild unknown where it was free to disregard the more restrictive elements of Rodenberry’s vision. Deep Space Nine would make its name actively challenging the concept in landmark episodes such as Homefront and In the Pale Moonlight. The Next Generation eventually stopped trying to live up to Rodenberry’s utopia and allowed whole other worlds of conflict.
And it did all this with sets, costumes and creatures so distinct that fans continue to imitate them to this day.Ī lot changed between that and Voyager of course.
Then it used that utopia to facilitate battles to the death, tense dilemmas and Viagra viruses ( The Naked Now in case you were wondering). Star Trek presented a socialist utopia in which humanity had evolved beyond differences of gender, race and even species to work for the advancement of the whole.
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