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<blockquote data-quote="Orius" data-source="post: 924716" data-attributes="member: 8863"><p>A lot of the blame for that can be laid at the feet of Roddenberry's &quot;vision&quot; of Star Trek.&nbsp; He envisioned a future where everyone got along, and no one resorting to violence and all that other hippie crap. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />&nbsp; I remember reading about how some staff writers that were around during the early seasons of TNG got disgusted with everyone getting along all of the time that they ended up leaving the show.&nbsp; They felt they needed some interpersonal conflict for the sake of drama, but Roddenberry refused to budge.&nbsp; Even with DS9, back when it was first being developed, Roddenberry was initially opposed to the idea of cast members not always getting along, until a compromise with Pillar was reached: only non-Federation cast members would have conflicts.&nbsp;&nbsp; As a result though, most Federation characters all seem boring and lifeless, all carbon copies of each other.&nbsp; They all like the same types of things, they all blindly agree with each other.&nbsp; Only a few, like Picard and Sisko ever get developed fully enough that they seem interesting.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Orius, post: 924716, member: 8863"] A lot of the blame for that can be laid at the feet of Roddenberry's "vision" of Star Trek. He envisioned a future where everyone got along, and no one resorting to violence and all that other hippie crap. :) I remember reading about how some staff writers that were around during the early seasons of TNG got disgusted with everyone getting along all of the time that they ended up leaving the show. They felt they needed some interpersonal conflict for the sake of drama, but Roddenberry refused to budge. Even with DS9, back when it was first being developed, Roddenberry was initially opposed to the idea of cast members not always getting along, until a compromise with Pillar was reached: only non-Federation cast members would have conflicts. As a result though, most Federation characters all seem boring and lifeless, all carbon copies of each other. They all like the same types of things, they all blindly agree with each other. Only a few, like Picard and Sisko ever get developed fully enough that they seem interesting. [/QUOTE]

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