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- From: brian@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM (Brian Wood)
- Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 16:19:04 GMT
- Subject: Re: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
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- Peter Nelson writes:
- I gave up watching TV altogether a year or so ago precisely because
- the very best it could manage was ca-ca like the Simpsons or STNG,
- masquerading as quality for "thinking viewers" (almost an oxymoron)
- when in reality it's distinctly lowbrow.
-
- The average Star Trek viewer is a child of the TV generation and
- isn't very well-read. So he doesn't realize that all these
- themes are treated with VASTLY greater insight and wit in such
- diverse writings as Greek classical literature, the Bible, the
- Vedic scripts, Shakespeare, and thousands of great works of 19th
- and 20th century literature, including important works of science
- fiction!
-
- Peter, I very much take exception to this. I thought you were better
- informed. I, as an engineer, know many engineers who love Star Trek for
- the moral, ethical, political and human rights issues it consistently
- raises with a thin veneer of sci-fi, and I'll bet if you surveyed the
- engineers at the Chelmsford plant, you'd find an awful lot of other Trekkers.
- Star Trek derives many of its themes from Shakespeare, and many of the
- actors are Shakespearean. I am not sure there IS such a thing as an
- average Star trek viewer. As has been told many times, it runs the gamut
- from children to NASA rocket scientists. I consider myself to be very well
- read, and I don't mean sci-fi. Television is an eye on our society, and
- Star Trek represents humankinds best hopes and dreams for a future we
- can be proud of. If that's what you call lowbrow, so be it. Thanks for
- your opinions, but you're WRONG!
-
- By the way, what's this doing in alt.alien.visitors? There is a
- rec.arts.startrek.<current,info,misc,tech,fandom> group for discussions
- like this!
-
- Brian
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