So I do like Star Trek a lot, especially TNG, DS9, and Below Decks. Voyager and TOS are fine. Space socialism is pretty good and I can't get enough of it. There are a few common tropes that irk me. tho.
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Baseball is cracker Amerikkkan nonsense - You telling me that all these different species and planets get together to chill, and the vibe they're gonna channel is Ohio?? Football (soccer) or some version of hockey make a lot more sense, you can pick up and start playing immediately. I can't imagine Worf wanting to learn all those pointless rules about balls and strikezones and fowls. Sisko is arguably the best captain of any series, and I really get pulled out of an episode every time he drops some awful baseball trivia. It's only slightly better than Nascar. I actually know one Scottish person who really likes baseball, and he's literally the worst person I know.
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The tribunal - It's so damn common. It seems like every season there's got to be a court-martial, hearing, or appeal against a Starfleet decision. I guess Law and Order is big there. It's probably a minor critique, but it does reinforce the ideology that Western courtrooms are fair.
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Kirk is a sex pest - This has been said to death, but leave your subordinates alone.
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Poker in TNG - Poker has to be the worst form of entertainment, and I genuinely like maths. I blame TNG for reigniting the poker craze of the 90s and ruining all my guy friends' personalities.
not queer and communist enough. andorians canonically have 4 genders!!! imagine how genderfucked you'd be after several lifetimes as a joined trill!! so many missed opportunities that are canon but never explored.
My dream trek series is an ensemble cast of actors playing a single trill. Each with backstory episodes about each character like in Lost, throughout the main storyline where the trill draws on experinces over like 500 years.
that's a really cool concept! the only thing even close to it that I can think of is the book The Lives of Dax in which each chapter is a vignette from each of Dax's hosts. a show like that would be really interesting, such a shame that the worst people have their hands on the IP.
Here to second that I also love this concept.