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Message: <blockquote data-quote="overgeeked" data-source="post: 9594054" data-attributes="member: 86653">For me, it was the first series to take Roddenberry’s utopian idea seriously because it ditched the ridiculous notion that everyone just got along all the time.I discovered Prisoners of Gravity on YouTube a few years ago through an interview with various writers on the topic of Utopia. It looked like my kind of show. For some reason the line that stuck out was from Alan Moore. “Utopia, if it’s going to be anything, is going to be a verb rather than a noun. Utopia is not a state that you achieve. Utopia has got to be the journey towards that state. If you ever arrive at that state of perfection, then you’ve reached death and stagnation.”To me, switching Roddenberry’s utopia from a noun to a verb, as seen in DS9, is exactly why it works so much better than what came before. And because of the cast, crew, writers, stories, etc it works better than most of what came after.</blockquote>