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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8954968" data-attributes="member: 18">I don't think that's really true, myself. TOS has aged much worse, it just happens to be more aligned with a certain trashy kind of action-drama that's still popular.Ironically that's all more realistic, given human history, than the more action-y and militarized portrayals we usually see now.The idea that people don't have meetings in crisis situations is obviously laughable nonsense, as a cold matter of hard fact they do, out of obvious necessity, and because in the real world, just like in a lot of TNG situations, you typically do have a bit of time to respond to things, and you want to respond right. But it's more dramatic if everyone runs around the ship like headless chickens, shrieking, as per Discovery and countless other non-Trek shows. So we go with drama instead of something that makes sense but is less dramatic. And civilian populations have always accompanied explorers, indeed, they are the main explorers, throughout history.The problem is with the insistence on faux-militarizing and military fetishization of everything (the one great thing about Roddenberry was that he objected to this), combining with the need to make every super-dramatic all the time lest someone glance at their phone or something. Just look at Andor getting called "boring" for actually having characterization, themes/ideas and plot. You think TNG screwed up there? Thinking that is how you get the worst aspects of Discovery.The place TNG screwed up was in having a lot of episodes with fundamentally dumb conceits, which is a very different problem.</blockquote>

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