[ SECRET POST #5496 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5496 ⌋

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[fscom]

06. https://i.imgur.com/y2w2Sep.png

[(Anonymous)]

Sokath, his eyes uncovered.

[(Anonymous)]

Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra

[kamino_neko]

I'm OK with tech gone wrong, if it's just being used as an easy way to get a conflict going (although I do prefer the alien culture plots)...theoretically, anyway. Nowadays, there's too much 'the tech went wrong, because it's tech, and tech is EEEEVIL' shit. (In shows almost certainly written in computer word processors, shot on digital, and edited on computers.)

[(Anonymous)]

I like it when the episode is about them working the problem, the process of troubleshooting.

[(Anonymous)]

I halfway agree. Exploring alien cultures is great (often putting very human experiences and principles to the test), but just soap operas playing out in space is boring me to death. (I wish I could word what the difference is, but it is hard.)

[meadowphoenix]

I only like tech gone wrong if it's clear-eyed about the fact that a being created the tech so if the tech is wrong that says something about who created it, or how the tech has taken on aspects of the society that created it. So yeah, I think I also prefer plots to focus on various cultures and how tech changes it, not on the tech itself.

[sparklywalls]

For some reason I immediately thought of how bored I got with the Human-form Replicators (in both galaxies) in Stargate and that was actually a 2 for 1 because you got a side order of culture (kinda) with your tech gone wrong. It was an interesting idea for me...at first.

[(Anonymous)]

I think the thing I love about old-school Star Trek tech malfunctions is that they were pure plot devices, not a thesis on how technology is evil. Just straight-up excuses for whatever plot the writers wanted to indulge in that day. If you didn’t have alien tech or space anomalies to cause your current plotline of choice, some good old fashioned Federation tech would also cause issues just fine. Need the crew to wind up stranded in an alternate universe where their counterparts are all evil? Transporter malfunction! Want the crew to go around in period costume without having to come up with an actual time machine? Holodeck malfunction!

(I actually think they should bring back more of that last one, rather than all the actual time travel the shows have been doing since ENT. That’s mostly me not liking most long-term time travel plots, though. They’re just … they’re messy and an excuse to ignore continuity while at the same time trying to have more arcs instead of episodic stories. Anyway)

The exploration and first contact episodes were always awesome too though, yeah.

[(Anonymous)]

...rather than all the actual time travel the shows have been doing since ENT.

THIS IS SPOCK AND KIRK GOING BACK IN TIME TO SAVE THE WHALES ERASURE AND I SHALL NOT STAND FOR IT

[tabaqui]

I agree. 'Tech gone wrong' is usually because the characters were morons (as a plot device, it seems), and therefore not remotely interesting or believable. Cultural interactions are great so long as we don't get the 'main' group (Americans, usually, or at least humans) being all guns-first and hoo-rah! 'Murica/Hooman!! at the aliens.

[(Anonymous)]

Have you watched Stargate SG-1? If not, you should. They have anthropological themes in a surprising amount of their episodes