just for marketing purposes, B5 had to be seen as the more serious, more serialized, more political, more morally ambiguous space opera.
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But it's not just B5. As I got into SF literature, Trek was often held up as superficial and, well, fake SF. "sci-fi" not science fiction
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"Reverse the polarity of the neutron flow" was the phrase tossed around as Trek just throwing out technobabble as opposed to having stories.
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And I've long had a distaste for time travel, alternate dimensions, evil clones, and the sort of gimmick SF the Trek loves.
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Over time, obviously, I've softened on Trek. Even watched most TNG! There's good stuff there, even with the technobabble and bumpy foreheads
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But what's odd about it is people who still treat it as a sort of default of science fiction. That it *needs* to be on TV. and so on
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a lot of it is similar to how I feel about discussions of GOT, actually - a fundamentally literary genre only talked about thru TV
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or at least, what I perceive as a fundamentally literary genre. much of the world clearly is happy sitcking with film/TV
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So anyway, I like Star Trek. But I'd be a lot happier with it if was understood as one thing among many, not the dominant form of SF TV.
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a big part of it is that back then Star Trek was the 500-pound gorilla
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it was easy to resent Trek when it had three overlapping series taking up all the oxygen in the room
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now Trek is the underdog, the property that was declared dead and is struggling for resurrection
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