{"id":20122,"date":"2016-08-10T21:06:29","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T04:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=20122"},"modified":"2019-12-17T08:26:50","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T16:26:50","slug":"20122","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/08\/10\/20122\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[]'><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been seeing some people grousing about #StarTrekDiscovery being set pre-#TOS. While I can understand disappointment if one was hoping for a post-#Nemesis setting (though I&#8217;m fine with the announced setting), there seems to be this idea that there can&#8217;t be any real suspense because we know so much about #StarTrek universe in Discovery&#8217;s future. Well, I have shelves of Trek books that beg to differ: there are plenty of ways to tell interesting stories in eras where we know much of the relative future. Plus, most of these books are about a ship and crew that we <em>know<\/em> will survive intact; #DIS will be a different ship and different characters, so peril is still very much a possibility. There are so many ways to have good stories, drama, and suspense without having to put the fate of the entire Federation in jeopardy. (I&#8217;ve also seen people whining about the announced diversity; &#8220;we&#8217;ve already had women\/black captains, why is this such a big deal&#8221;, and my favorite, &#8220;this left-wing liberal crap is going to ruin Star Trek&#8221;. All I can say there is that these poor people have a <em>very<\/em> odd idea of Trek&#8217;s messages, its past, and the politics of the show and its creators.) &#x1f596;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/71ec892f222d475485fcd55a914318ef.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been seeing some people grousing about #StarTrekDiscovery being set pre-#TOS. While I can understand disappointment if one was hoping for a post-#Nemesis setting (though I&#8217;m fine with the announced setting), there seems to be this idea that there can&#8217;t be any real suspense because we know so much about #StarTrek universe in Discovery&#8217;s future. &#8230; <a title=\"\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/08\/10\/20122\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2033,2049,2047],"tags":[1665,2771,4097],"class_list":["post-20122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beyond-the-blog","category-photos","category-star-trek","tag-discovery","tag-from-instagram","tag-star-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}