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Star Trek fans: do you have any pet peeves about the franchise? (hexbear.net)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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.
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.
Kirk is a sex pest - This has been said to death, but leave your subordinates alone.
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.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I feel like we never got to see how vast and expansive a space station could be. Deep Space 9 takes place on a gigantic space station, but it mostly feels like a few rooms and a LOT of identical hallways.

Babylon 5 also takes place on a space station, but it takes some time to show how transit works and it even has big outdoor similar to Mass Effect's citadel and the Captain even accesses a baseball field that has big robots that go around picking up the baseballs to return to the pitch machine.

Yes, both 90s tv shows about space stations had a captain that was into baseball several hundred years in the future.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Kirk is a sex pest - This has been said to death, but leave your subordinates alone.

haven't seen ToS, I thought he just went after hot alien babes^TM^ . The prime directive is one thing but fraternization? warf-wtf

to clarify:

sex pest = bad

unprofessional sex pest = bad in two ways

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

The worst part is how he gets alien babes to fall in love with him, just so he can get what he wants to fulfill the mission.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Baseball is a dead sport the final world series in star trek was 2042, only a few weirdos know what it is let alone play it. Sisco being a fan of baseball is similar to Archer being hyped on water polo in enterprise. It's a super niche interest and the only known league in the universe is on Cestus 3 and only has six teams. I'm not sure at all why you brought up Scottish people in this. There is instance of a Scot playing baseball in the franchise. Here's another thing, baseball is the best sport cinematically. Patrick H Willems made a long video essay about it but the setup of the field and the tension and release angle works better for TV or movies than a sport where people are running around all the time.

My biggest pet peeve is Voyager.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

In TOS, I hate how many episodes revolve around them encountering some unimaginably advanced entity, and then basically having to trick it into freeing them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I feel like they introduced the transporter as a thing (budget), and then at least a portion of many episodes is a few lines about why the transporter cannot be used to solve this problem. Also, teleporter gets picked up by my spellchecker and its been in use for more than half a century.

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