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Damon Young

@damonayoung

Aug 5, 2018 • 5 tweets • 1 min read Twitter logo

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I ought to be delighted that Jean-Luc Picard is returning.

But there's always the danger that the whole show will be Junior Lieutenant Picard; the one who avoided the Nausicaan. #StarTrek

Star Trek has had an enduring problem: playing it safe, avoiding nasty consequences, cheating death and grief of their consequence.

The whole of Voyager should've been "Year of Hell". Instead, we got a space drama/sitcom, and Moore made BSG.

Of course there've been some good episodes. Some *great* episodes.

But Star Trek peaked with mid-to-late TNG and DS9, and the rest was stale gagh.

So, look. I trust Patrick Stewart. He's given the role incredible dignity.

I'm just wary of the studios and their concessions to the comfortable.

Also, this is *not* a request for grimdark edgy crap. Look what DC did to their superheroes. Yeah nah.

Just make it thoughtful, plausible, curious, visually enchanting--and *ethical*.

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Damon Young

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Yes, we can certainly try to comprehend others, and to feel something like what they feel.

But note the “try”. It’s a *labour*.

We can be empathetic without fiction, and we can have fiction and be wholly aloof (e.g. because the story doesn’t move us).

Some studies show a correlation between a lifetime of reading “literary fiction” and the ability to recognise the emotional states of others (under laboratory conditions).

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