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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Replying to @RowanKaiser
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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I'm pretty sure Dr Who went through this cycle too
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before Dr Who died it was a frequent punchline for how hammy and dumb and campy it was
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and how the series had gone on for fucking ever and didn't make sense anymore
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give it a break for a while and suddenly the triumphant resurrection makes everyone nostalgic for what they used to mock
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that's probably part of it, but since space TV largely disappeared as a whole in the US, Trek was always still the gorilla
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Enterprise, Star Trek Nemesis, it was bad times
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