>>84017032JJTrek sucks massive amounts of dicks, though. The characters are pop culture stereotypes. I mean, Kirk didn't even fuck that many aliens. He's just a sort of Space James Bond, because it was 60's television. Bones pulls just as much tail, and Spock certainly did so in real life. DS9 even makes the joke that Dax lusts after Spock, fucked McCoy, but that the men are obsessed with Kirk.
>>84017755That's budget restraints, though. It became part of the franchise, but as soon as they could upgrade Klingons, they did. M'Ress, Arex, and others from the animated show are properly alien because they could finally do it. Pic related is the cast from the episode The Jihad.
Lizard guy was the best one.
>>84024182JJ is just a guy who's good at making a safe, dumb product while making it appear that he's doing something more than that.
I haven't seen the new Star Wars, but the new Trek was just an action movie with a few Star Trek props and names. He does nothing daring. Showing Kirk fuck inhuman aliens would be daring.
But it's how things go in this modern day and age. The hyperoffended generation will misinterpret any attempt at being daring that they don't like as a personal offense. I was watching a review of The Child -the TNG episode- the other day. And it's a crap episode. Troi gets a weird space baby. But the reviewer goes on and fucking on about how it's sexist, and offensive to women, and RAPE. I mean, it's a sci-fi immaculate conception, you douchenozzle. The alien force did not hold her down and have sex with her. It put a baby in her. And if it was a good episode, there would be none of the same moaning.
In short, these people have made it easier to just make a safe, mediocre product that foregoes difficult subjects and representation of people who are not the norm, because it reduces the risk of pissing people off. Just look at the difference between TOS Uhura and JJ Uhura: The first is an African woman who speaks Swahili, the latter is black.
