The thing being, of course, this isn't actually a "realistic" setting -- any more than it'd be realistic to imagine our world as being exactly like the year 1750 with the one exception of having invented diesel engines, or radio transmitters
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Replying to @arthur_affect @fightuntil and
And for a show like Star Trek the nonsense universe-breaking ability of the transporter to just take things apart at the atomic level and rebuild them arbitrarily is half the fun What would Star Trek fandom even be without the Tuvix Debate
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now i want a series that's exactly like star trek except with a fantasy palette swap they're on a big-ass schooner in space, o'brien operates the teleportation circles, instead of shields they have wards there's still a big dilithium crystal at the heart of it all though
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Replying to @perdricof @fightuntil and
One of my favorite episodes of Voyager, "Muse", is 100% about this concept The one where B'elanna Torres gets stranded on an Ancient Greece-themed planet and an alien Greek playwright turns her mission logs into a literal classical drama
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That one was one of the many Voyager Writers' Room cries for help It was veteran Star Trek writer Joe Menosky's final swan song and artistic statement before quitting Star Trek writing entirely
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
Which is why the episode is surprisingly good, even if the concept is obviously corny and the meta message was obvious from the very beginning
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That they'd lost their way in science-fiction gimmicks and Technobabble of the Week and tropey fandom shipping shit and forgotten the Elements of Drama
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
That the core concept of Voyager still "works" if you take all the science fiction elements away A proud ship of explorers blown by a storm into strange and distant seas, clinging to their memory of the Great City of "Earth" in a savage hinterland racked by poverty and war
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The "Borg" just being another dime-a-dozen predatory civilization of rapacious raiders and looters and slavers The worst cruelty they enact on their victims being that they steal your children to raise as their own, who grow up thinking that their ways are good and right
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
The playwright desperate to carry out the very serious mission of keeping the archon of the polis from declaring another brutal war by showing Captain Janeway and Seven of Nine resolve their differences peacefully
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That young Seven, a poor orphan girl stolen from the Great City of Earth to be raised in the ways of deceit and betrayal and taught there was no law in this harsh world but strength, could be brought home by Janeway, with enough patience and kindness and trust
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
That the Great City of Earth only came to exist because her own ancestors had left the way of hatred behind long ago, and learned a better way (This is, notably, what Voyager was supposed to be about and almost never actually was about)
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(The "We need to learn to trust Seven so she can learn that trust is a value to be reciprocated" thing never really panned out Neither did "We must hold onto our values to be better than the Kazon and Hirogen etc. we're trapped among")
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