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[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 6 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

Hell yeah! Best non-trek sci fi show since The Expanse.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 5 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Makes me wish Apple TV would buy the rights to The Expanse and finish the series. There are two more books that take place years later.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

And The Orville.

For AllMankind feels so hopeful because, like The Orville, it’s got Trek’s fingerprints on it.

[–] agentTeiko@piefed.social 2 points 15 hours ago

Created by Ronald D Moore it has star trek at its core from him

[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

unlike actual star trek these days.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 0 points 18 hours ago

You don't like the future of body-positive sexually ambiguous females running everything?

[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

you can easily include trek in that statement.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago

Better than Lower Decks? SNW? Nah.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 0 points 18 hours ago (2 children)
[–] misk@piefed.social 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

That’s true of currently airing fanfiction. Episodic Star Trek shows were definitely sci-fi. Philip Dick, the only person high enough to define sci-fi wrote:

This world must be different from the given one in at least one way, and this one way must be sufficient to give rise to events that could not occur in our society… There must be a coherent idea involved in this dislocation…so that as a result a new society is generated in the author's mind, transferred to paper, and from paper it occurs as a convulsive shock in the reader's mind, the shock of dysrecognition.

In good science fiction, the conceptual dislocation ---the new idea, in other words---must be truly new and it must be intellectually stimulating to the reader… so it sets off a chain-reaction of ramification, ideas in the mind of the reader; it so-to-speak unlocks the reader's mind so that that mind, like the author's, begins to create... The very best science fiction ultimately winds up being a collaboration between author and reader, in which both create---and enjoy doing it, experiencing the joy of discovery of newness.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

Oh look it’s this flame war again. Haven’t seen it since the early 90s on BBS