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In reply to the discussion: Star Trek film has political message (Spoiler) [View all]longship
(40,416 posts)The god-beings were annoying, but the stories often carried them through. After all, how many aliens can you create when they're all basically low tech humanoid bipeds. So you're gonna inevitably get the earth parallel worlds, and the gods.
It's not the aliens and the gods that set Star Trek apart. It was how the Enterprise dealt with them. That's what set Star Trek apart. They had weaponry, but they were not on a military mission. In 1967 that was fairly new thinking.
I disagree with your opinion of Roddenberry.
And JJ Abrams is still a Gumby director.
"Scotty! Pour us all another round!"
The new Enterprise doesn't need dilithium crystals; they have all the beer they want. (If you call that Budweiser swill beer, that is.) The engineering decks of the new Enterprise sure had a lot of it.
Rubbish!