It was still operating within the general framework of his vision while taking an honest poke at deconstructing some of his idealism and how it would conflict with reality. I know the word "deconstruction" is real fucking soiled these days, and for good reason, but when done well and with a level of understanding and respect as to why the thing being deconstructed is enjoyed and loved, it can work incredibly well and be a real asset to a story so long as it does not start deconstructing for the sake of edginess/drama in a way that adds nothing to a story.
Well... if Wesley spent most of his time in your department, wouldn't you be pissed off now and then?
The best example of how DS9's writers viewed Roddenberry purist trek has to be the scene where garak and quark discuss Root Beer. They talk about how insidious and subverting the federation is, but at the same time they are hoping it wins because its the best possible future despite the flaws. That is DS9 in a nutshell, they reveal the dark underbelly but ultimately respect and love star trek despite its flaws.
I loved Quark's tacit admission in that conversation that he liked both Root Beer and the Federation.
For TNG:
I like really retro: analog mechanical stuff, like in early SF - and was implied to be on Zefram Cochrane's ship in TOS.
It's an old joke at this point but I like to imagine that Miles couldn't tell the difference when she was possessed by a rage banshee (forgot if it was a Pah Wraith) that one time.
The way she treated Molly in the episode where she came back feral kinda showed that.
He immediately noticed that she wasn't being an atomic cunt about the damn plant.
That's a hard one.
Faces, Extreme Risk, The Raven, Lineage & Infinite RegressEh, Enterprise's ending is pretty shit.
TOS: The Ultimate Computer, Balance of Terror
Indeed but we see him give a speech to the Coalition of Planets in the actual final episode of Enterprise (Terra Prime).
