Why are Star Trek worlds so one dimensional?

[Clippy]

What do carpets look like where you're from?

 

[Medulla Omoplata]

star trek is fake

 

[Clippy]

Lol yeah in Star Trek the alien design is actually the #1 reason why I never was able to get into it. It's really cheap and not well-thought. The only group I thought was actually looking kinda cool (well, in the 90s) were those cyborgs, but at the end of the day they also look like pale humans with a wire around the ear.

I also never understood how the klingons were even able to build a space shuttle. They have the mental capability of a 10 year old human. No way those idiots discovered more than basic mathemativs.

Yeah the logistics of a group of people who constantly murder each other just cause would never advance far ... at all

LOL

 

[Not A Theist]

Technically that's a rug. You need to go to better parties if you're causing a scene by running around wearing a bearskin rug.

 

[OverCoronavirus Pressure]

What bugs me:

Aliens that are all humanoid. Actual aliens will not be humanoid. There nothing special about human physiology that dictates this.

Yes, planets all look the same, many with obvious, cheap sound stage sets. (In the original series, you can see boot prints in the "soil" from previous takes.)

Characters will exposition-dump with round robin dialogue, explaining it all to the audience, which comes off like the characters hadn't ever talked about the situation. Futurama parodies this really well.

Also,
"What's going on?"

"You'd better get up here/see it yourself/come to the bridge."

 

[Clippy]

What bugs me:

Aliens that are all humanoid. Actual aliens will not be humanoid. There nothing special about human physiology that dictates this.

Yes, planets all look the same, many with obvious, cheap sound stage sets. (In the original series, you can see boot prints in the "soil" from previous takes.)

Characters will exposition-dump with round robin dialogue, explaining it all to the audience, which comes off like the characters hadn't ever talked about the situation. Futurama parodies this really well.

Also,
"What's going on?"

"You'd better get up here/see it yourself/come to the bridge."

They made a bullshit Next Gen ep that "explains" why all aliens are just people with prosthetic shit on their faces

 

[OverCoronavirus Pressure]

They made a bullshit Next Gen ep that "explains" why all aliens are just people with prosthetic shit on their faces

Agreed. Some interesting elements to that ep - it was a decent premise but poorly executed.

 

[Clippy]

Agreed. Some interesting elements to that ep - it was a decent premise but poorly executed.

It was a weird horrible episode to solely explain a show plothole

Like literally the ep was Humans, Romulas, Klingons and some others discovering some ancient thing at the same time and they all race to an end scene where some woman explains to the audience a bullshit plot fix that nobody was satisfied with

 

[Only Here for Attachments]

Remember Next Gen with the planet of farmers? They had to beam them all up and Picard was all pissed cause there was livestock all over the ship?

I shit you not this was an episode

TNG is the best source of unintentional humor ever

 

[Clippy]

TNG is the best source of unintentional humor ever

This is my favourite thing ever

Like seriously

Watch this super edit of what it would be like to work with a completely insane and senile captain

 

[OverCoronavirus Pressure]

Also

Devices, technology that works unless the script needs them not to

(mostly DS9) Do they use money, or not??
Quark expects bar tabs to be paid with money. If Starfleet/Earth folks have stopped using money, what do they use instead?
Does Sisko's dad just give away food for free at his restaurant?

 

[Goon Dog]

Yup left all those marks on the dead body.

I remember that episode very young, def was creepy but the twist being it was the doctor (right? I'm recalling right?) in the end was I think the first story I'd seen that move used. I remember seeing it the first time.

I'm too lazy to Google but I think you're right. She left those circle marks when she removed the salt from their bodies. Even as old as they are, I still love the original series.

 

[OverCoronavirus Pressure]

It was a weird horrible episode to solely explain a show plothole

Like literally the ep was Humans, Romulas, Klingons and some others discovering some ancient thing at the same time and they all race to an end scene where some woman explains to the audience a bullshit plot fix that nobody was satisfied with

What's also funny is that this is the episode RLM (Mike Plinkett) used in his review of Generations- Picard is sifting through the rubble of the Enterprise, and picks up the Curlan Neskos, which is ancient and extremely rare- and just puts it back down as is it were meaningless pottery.

 

[Clippy]

What's also funny is that this is the episode RLM (Mike Plinkett) used in his review of Generations- Picard is sifting through the rubble of the Enterprise, and picks up the Curlan Neskos, which is ancient and extremely rare- and just puts it back down as is it were meaningless pottery.

That Curlan Neskos bit is the best thing ever and so true

I can see the writers and stuff botching that

But shame on Pat Steward for dropping the ball and not remembering shit

Maybe he did speak up and they were like fuck you

 

[OverCoronavirus Pressure]

I'm too lazy to Google but I think you're right. She left those circle marks when she removed the salt from their bodies. Even as old as they are, I still love the original series.

Loved the three act format, bottle episodes without tons of shooting and lens flare.

 

[Clippy]

Loved the three act format, bottle episodes without tons of shooting and lens flare.

The bottle eps were actually usually the most creative for the most part

 

[OverCoronavirus Pressure]

That Curlan Neskos bit is the best thing ever and so true

I can see the writers and stuff botching that

But shame on Pat Steward for dropping the ball and not remembering shit

Maybe he did speak up and they were like fuck you

As Mike rightly noted, everyone forgot how to play their characters.
Troi doesn't bother with the accent, and Picard clearly has problems, turning into Action Man.

 

[OverCoronavirus Pressure]

The bottle eps were actually usually the most creative for the most part

Because they weren't hobbled with trying to shoehorn in details relevant to a four episode arc.

 

[Goon Dog]

Loved the three act format, bottle episodes without tons of shooting and lens flare.

And the writing and casting were just off the charts great. People love to criticize One-Take Shatner, but he was perfect for the role.

 

[Clippy]

As Mike rightly noted, everyone forgot how to play their characters.
Troi doesn't bother with the accent, and Picard clearly has problems, turning into Action Man.

It sucks when actors don't fully commit to their characters

Ian Macallem was hitting people on the head with books when shooting Lord of the Rings to be sure they portrayed shit accurately