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- Mar 23, 2016
Yeah, with today's media, it's kind of weird to see old media where people treat each other with respect and treating situations with actual gravitas without mugging at the camera...
A similar situation in newer shows would devolve into petty bitchfighting, stupid cringy dialogue and terrible attempts at humor, before someone strings together meaningless technobabble to overcome the problem of the week.
Star Trek is an idealized future, where the chain of command is being upheld in the most respectful and effective way. Data could chew out Worf, but it wouldn't do either any good. So they resolve it in private, but strangely enough, that isn't even the part that makes this stand out so much to me.
The whole thing would be fine with Data telling Worf to behave propperly and Worf agreeing, but instead, there's some obvious tension and Data brings up their friendship and that he's sorry if his actions have ended it. Worf in turn clarifies that he's the one who acted wrongly and both express that they would gladly continue to consider each other friends.
Even that small "I would not enter it as a reprimand, just as a transfer" is really a nice touch.
You can tell they put a lot of thought into this scene and it is maybe not a pivotal scene in the relationship between these two characters, but it's still an interesting character moment for the both of them.
You simply don't get that from modern Star Trek, cause they are way too far up their own ass about being lolsorandomandquirkAAAAY...
I am so glad there's still little glimmers of hope, like "The Expanse", which has strong female characters being absolute badasses, that still makes every character shine in their own right - male or female.
I'd rather compare it to bitchy teenage highschool girls, that exchange catty remarks during lunchbreak. It's the old mantra of Hollywood:
What better way for a woman to show off how strong and independent she is, than to be a bitch and talk back at a male dudebro in an abrasive manner and making him look like a fool in the process?
*USS Diversity is orbiting Earth, suddenly a Borg cube warps in*
Borg: "We are the Borg-"
*Borg is cut off and put on hold with funny elevator music playing before Captain Cunt strolls onto the Bridge, holding a "Male Tears" mug and a Funko-Pop of the female Dr. Who*
Captain Cunt: "Yes yesyesyesyes. We know the drill, you'll like, catch us, make us a part of your possé but we can't do shit about it and all that jazz like geez, get a grip you creepy stalkers. Yikes. Listen here buddy, can't you take a hint? We didn't consent to any of this shit, so get your shit together and leave us the fuck alone, now let's be real here..."
*While Captain Cunt prattles on, the camera pans over to the viewscreen, showing that the Borg have started bombarding Earth with a mass accelerator, that scours the surface to a depth of 10 km with high-energy particles going 99% the speed of light and turning every organic matter into ash*
Little known fact, when a lifeform is deemed regressive enough, the Borg will just wipe it out without a single trace of it ever existing. No one expected that one of the Great Filters of the Fermi Paradoxon would be toxic whedonism, but here we are.
was not for me and didn't watch any more of it.
