XPost: rec.arts.sf.movies   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Fri, 6 Feb 2026 07:55:45 -0500, The True Melissa wrote:   
      
   > Verily, in article <10m3s66$3rhd2$2@dont-email.me>, did   
   > ldo@nz.invalid deliver unto us this message:   
   >>   
   >> On Wed, 4 Feb 2026 16:15:33 -0000 (UTC), The Doctor wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Star Trek   
   >>>   
   >>> Looks like Eugene Roddenybury and co wants to bury ST into an   
   >>> unrecognisable grave.   
   >>   
   >> It was always a “woke” series, though, wasn?t it. An   
   >> international--no, interplanetary--cast of characters, a pluralist   
   >> Federation, the first interracial kiss on US TV ...   
   >   
   > A lot of people say that. I see an important difference between a   
   > show about space exploration which has some social messages and a   
   > show about social messages which has some space exploration.   
      
   Science fiction, like any other kind of fiction, has to be about the   
   people. The gadgets, the technology, the alien setting, whether   
   elsewhere or elsewhen or elsewhatever ... these are always secondary.   
   Of course they have to be a key part of the plot, but the story must   
   always be the thing. And the story is always about the people.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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