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If Quark and his bar would reappear, as kind of a running gag, the audience would jump throught the roof, I guess.
My problem with the Abramsverse is that there just doesn't seem to be much "there" there -- it's basically superhero movies in Trek drag. I don't mind a good superhero picture when I'm in the mood for one, but when I watch something with "Star Trek" in the title, I expect a certain emphasis on character development that I just don't see in these films.
Granted, I'm a devoted Niner, so my standard on this point is set at a high level -- I often wish Garak would get thrown thru a dimensional rift into the Abramsverse. In ten minutes he'd be running the place.
I think he had the best character arc on the series.Of course, Quark is on shaky ground there given the position of Ferengi fee-males. Until, of course, the advent of Moogie.
BTW, speaking of DS9 Ferengi, I was deeply saddened this week to hear of the passing of Aron Eisenberg, who played Quark's nephew Nog, the first Ferengi to serve in Starfleet. He was only 50 years old, and after surviving a lifetime of kidney issues, he died of a heart attack. A fine actor who gave his character incredible depth and nuance, especially in the story arc involving the loss of his leg in combat during DS9's 7th season. Watch "The Siege of AR-558" and "It's Only A Paper Moon" in his memory.
A thing, I never wrote about in this thread, before:
I never forgot, what situation always bugged me, on TNG! Do you remember the Borg-episodes with Hugh? The crew of the Enterprise designed an electronic "weapon" to disable the Borg Collective. This trick would work like a computer virus.
In the end, Picard decided morally against this solution and prefered to use a softer solution, which gives Hugh a permanently portion of indivduality.
But I thought, Picard is kidding me!! The Borg are totally mischievous conquerers and acting like evil computer virus, themselves! I would have loved to see the Borg's organisation breaking down!!
How would you decide?
A thing, I never wrote about in this thread, before:
I never forgot, what situation always bugged me, on TNG! Do you remember the Borg-episodes with Hugh? The crew of the Enterprise designed an electronic "weapon" to disable the Borg Collective. This trick would work like a computer virus.
In the end, Picard decided morally against this solution and prefered to use a softer solution, which gives Hugh a permanently portion of indivduality.
But I thought, Picard is kidding me!! The Borg are totally mischievous conquerers and acting like evil computer virus, themselves! I would have loved to see the Borg's organisation breaking down!!
How would you decide?
All he has to do is trick them into upgrading to Windows 10.
Meanwhile, Hugh figures prominently in the new Picard series, and from the previews life hasn't turned out all that well for him. Picard may well be forced to come to terms with his decision thirty years after the fact.
The creators / writers have every right to put whatever political ideology they want in their shows and I, as a viewer, have every right to embrace or reject it. I found TNG's politics so aggressively tendentious - as with the example you note (as stated, I didn't see that one, but saw plenty of similar politics on TNG) - that I was turned off to the show and, to this day, have still not seen every episode of TNG.
Kirk would probably have sweared:
"To hell with these bionic bastards!!"
And quoting Al Bundy: "Let's rock!"