Opus 2026-248: A Little Imagination, Please

Somewhere in the last few months there was a takeoff on Star Trek.  I think it was called Star Trek Academy.  I don’t think I saw anything but mocking comments.  Will they ever try to actually redo the original series?  

You would have to vastly expand the command deck to make allowance for all of the currently popular ethnic groups and genders that we have in our culture.  You might need to develop new technologies to give each of them an important place in the pecking order.  You might also need an off-screen secondary control deck that actually worked the ship around the DEI hires but that might be too much honesty.

Which points out you would have to rework the introductory dialogue where it talks about going where no man is gone before.  That would be unacceptable.  You would need to work in some kind of pronoun recognition.

What if conservatives decided to remake the series?  You would, of course need to rename the ship.  You might want to make it the Free Enterprise.  There would need to be episodes where they could not get the dilithium crystals replaced because of government price controls and maybe issues getting the registration renewed.  There is a whole universe of topics that were ignored.

The opening monologue would need to make allowance that intellegent watchers might wonder how they could go where no man has gone before and keep finding men.  And the problem of everyone speaking English would need to be addressed.  I noticed in VI they talked about universal translators but I don’t remember that in the series.

It is questionable that such a remake would be recognizable.

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