I was a Microsoft sympathizer, until just this moment. I've always opposed government action in this case, confident that the market would take care of itself. Big, inefficient corporations eventually collapse under their own weight, and although it looks slow to us, natural corrections are ultimately more efficient than artificial ones. I've also been sympathetic to Microsoft because I felt Gates was getting a bum rap from elite computer users (read Linux users). It's not his fault the majority of buyers are idiots. The ignorance of the marketplace is the real villain here. I'm not a programmer and I don't run a server, so Microsoft products do what I need done in a reasonable manner. So I have never jumped on the Bash Gates bandwagon. But this, this is beyond the pale. This is the last straw. Allowing people to run visual basic scripts from email is dumb enough, but now Gates is using his own shitty programming as an excuse to keep the company together! This is like a boy murdering his parents and asking for pity because he's an orphan! Shameless audacity. Disgusting. "Features" my ass.
But the current producers have opened themselves up to these kinds of questions by publishing Tech Manuals and leaning more on the technology.
I believe in Roddenberry's original conception, Star Trek was supposed to be modern mythology -- a program about moral dilemmas. The technology of the ship and the phasers and so forth was literally window dressing.
Roddenberry didn't care about technical continuity, he cared about MORAL continuity.
Modern fans threw out the original "spirit" of Trek and substituted it for a Star Wars Action Figure kind of Trek.
There's really nothing WRONG with this, but we've grafted a technocentric view of entertainment onto a show that was never intended to be realistic.
Complaining about "unrealistic transporter technology" in Star Trek is just as silly as complaining about "unrealistic character abilities" in Beowulf!
I'd like to see a new series that started from a realistic tech base and copied Roddenberry's MORALITY.
(I thought Roddenberry's morality was preachy and naive, but it was good television.)
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I was a Microsoft sympathizer, until just this moment. I've always opposed government action in this case, confident that the market would take care of itself. Big, inefficient corporations eventually collapse under their own weight, and although it looks slow to us, natural corrections are ultimately more efficient than artificial ones. I've also been sympathetic to Microsoft because I felt Gates was getting a bum rap from elite computer users (read Linux users). It's not his fault the majority of buyers are idiots. The ignorance of the marketplace is the real villain here. I'm not a programmer and I don't run a server, so Microsoft products do what I need done in a reasonable manner. So I have never jumped on the Bash Gates bandwagon. But this, this is beyond the pale. This is the last straw. Allowing people to run visual basic scripts from email is dumb enough, but now Gates is using his own shitty programming as an excuse to keep the company together! This is like a boy murdering his parents and asking for pity because he's an orphan! Shameless audacity. Disgusting. "Features" my ass.
It's also important to remember that science fiction was a young genre when Roddenberry started Trek.
We expect more from it now.
First impulse is to say, "It's just a show."
But the current producers have opened themselves up to these kinds of questions by publishing Tech Manuals and leaning more on the technology.
I believe in Roddenberry's original conception, Star Trek was supposed to be modern mythology -- a program about moral dilemmas. The technology of the ship and the phasers and so forth was literally window dressing.
Roddenberry didn't care about technical continuity, he cared about MORAL continuity.
Modern fans threw out the original "spirit" of Trek and substituted it for a Star Wars Action Figure kind of Trek.
There's really nothing WRONG with this, but we've grafted a technocentric view of entertainment onto a show that was never intended to be realistic.
Complaining about "unrealistic transporter technology" in Star Trek is just as silly as complaining about "unrealistic character abilities" in Beowulf!
I'd like to see a new series that started from a realistic tech base and copied Roddenberry's MORALITY.
(I thought Roddenberry's morality was preachy and naive, but it was good television.)