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Yeah, I could see how it could be good but it just wasn't working with me.
Characters didn't feel right I think was my main problem.
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I agree the characters didn't feel right.
I think the writer should have used another Federation starship with a crew based loosely on the enterprise's crew.
The Enterprise has a far to well defined set of characters or crew. Instead the writer should have used another Federation starship possibly one mentioned in passing by the crew or shown for a few seconds in a episode.
I can live with the writers shoehorning of the well known characters to fit a darker interpretation of the communistic Federation, but I wish this writer hadn't made the mistake.
"Star Trek the Next Generation" after all only lets us see things from the point of view of the Enterprise and it's Crew.
The Enterprise is the flagship of the entire Federation and it's Starfleet. It can be argued very easily that it isn't the best example to study to find out what Starfleet and the Federation are really like.
The basic fanfic idea is very good and something I felt like kicking myself for not thinking of, especially when I know the history of nations that have changed to communistic or socialistic systems.
If the writer had used another Federation starship with an original crew it would have been one of those fanfic stories that sends a chill down your spine and makes you take a second look at a series.
You would go back to the original show to refute the fanfics different and much darker point of view of the communistic Federation and it Starfleet and yet would be left with a vague feeling of unease that just maybe the Utopian communistic society Picard and his crew have talked about representing isn't quite the near Utopia they claim or even possibly think it is.
howard melton
God bless
Yeah, I could see how it could be good but it just wasn't working with me.
Characters didn't feel right I think was my main problem.
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I agree the characters didn't feel right.
I think the writer should have used another Federation starship with a crew based loosely on the enterprise's crew.
The Enterprise has a far to well defined set of characters or crew. Instead the writer should have used another Federation starship possibly one mentioned in passing by the crew or shown for a few seconds in a episode.
I can live with the writers shoehorning of the well known characters to fit a darker interpretation of the communistic Federation, but I wish this writer hadn't made the mistake.
"Star Trek the Next Generation" after all only lets us see things from the point of view of the Enterprise and it's Crew.
The Enterprise is the flagship of the entire Federation and it's Starfleet. It can be argued very easily that it isn't the best example to study to find out what Starfleet and the Federation are really like.
The basic fanfic idea is very good and something I felt like kicking myself for not thinking of, especially when I know the history of nations that have changed to communistic or socialistic systems.
If the writer had used another Federation starship with an original crew it would have been one of those fanfic stories that sends a chill down your spine and makes you take a second look at a series.
You would go back to the original show to refute the fanfics different and much darker point of view of the communistic Federation and it Starfleet and yet would be left with a vague feeling of unease that just maybe the Utopian communistic society Picard and his crew have talked about representing isn't quite the near Utopia they claim or even possibly think it is.
howard melton
God bless