Because Humans are more evolved in the 24th century and enjoy things like O'Brien's cello recital or playing their metal whistle they learned to makes after an alien probe mind raped them and they lived the life of some long dead alien on a dying world. Future humans are boring as shit.
Star Trek always had this autistic aversion to showing anything that looked like Earth, no, it always had to be Risa or Klingon poetry. That’s why Tom Paris is written like this weirdo for liking old black-and-white movies, because the writers act like human culture evaporated in the 60s. That's what made Sisko’s creole kitchen so cool, you finally saw some continuity with Earth, like “oh yeah, this show is in our universe.'
I think it was more that the TNG crew was filled with autistic retards. As @Captain Syrup points out, DS9 had Sisko's Creole Kitchen. DS9 also had good, old-fashioned baseball. Bashir played tennis and Odo liked old hard boiled crime novels. O'Brien was a miniature sperg.
At the very least, the newer shows try to show a more casual side to the crew... even if there are a lot of times where they look more like unprofessional morons.
Enterprise NX-01 also had movie nights.
And they almost had boybands performing every episode. Season 5 and 6 would have been wild between that and the Doctor Who crossover episode.
lol, Risa is the "free booze, free sex"-planet, what do people who have no sexual organs or the need for schnaps do there?
DS9 would have ended immediately if the Federation introduced holodecks to the Jem'Hadar and showed how to use them. They would spend all their time fighting in a holosuite.
Grinding bog standard G rated daily events for free seasonal ship during the summer event. Rest of the year there ain't nothing going on. Since the STO Risa is on the two or so islands that ain't a Risan version of Sodom and Gomorrah.
From the dates I think it'd actually be during the Billie Piper era so if you're into aggressively Br*tish looking chicks that'd be hot. Now, Karen Gillain can give me the ole Riker Maneuver any day. Y'know what I'm saying!
Bashir and O’Brien basically treated the holosuites like a very immersive co-op video game system eventually, doing the Alamo or the Battle of Britain the way you’d do a LASO run of Halo 2 with your buddy.
Rory was the best nu-who companion becauseBefore I fell out of love with DW I binged a few of those Big Finish audios. "Bang-Bang-a-Boom!" is literally the Doctor and Mel on a fake Star Trek station.
It got mixed reviews but honestly it was funny. They got some chick from Rocky Horror to play a giant-titted alien whose gimmick is she spends the whole story smothering Sylvester McCoy’s goblin face into her cleavage. The ship's scientist confesses he’s a drunk who doesn’t know shit and he’s just been making up technobabble for decades. "It's all rubbish."
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Over time I’ve realized I don’t really understand Doctor Who fans or what the hell they want. Rose and Donna were the last companions who felt like they belonged in the same league as the people before them.
River was Doctor Who at its most bloated, most self-congratulatory. Clara was scraping the bottom of the barrel. I think Bill was supposed to be the gay one? That's her character? And then Yaz, Jesus Christ. Cop who wants to fuck the Doctor but never says it. Ruby’s new, right? What’s her deal? I dunno, she looks a bit like Billie but with a really irritating accent.
Wander around wondering how the hell they got beaten by species that need to let off steam and don't think about fighting every moment. Or do the G-rated activities to get the fun kit modules that let you turn the floor into lava, among other things.
Safety features, kill switches, lockouts and that crap is for pussies.
