Just watched #StarTrek's original pilot, with Capt Pike.
Very interesting, for its time: psychology, sociology, philisophy, fantasy, space all rolled into one. 🤔
Oh, and truly *terrible* makeup & costumes! ðŸ«
It seems clear to me that Number One (Majel Barrett) was the model for Rebecca Romijn's character, Una Chin-Riley, in SNW.
Majel Barret was synonymous with the franchise: as #1, Nurse Chapel, ship's computer, Lwaxana Troi, & more.
(NBC requested a 2nd pilot, without a female #1. 😲)
I truly miss the genius of Roddenberry.
The last few years of DS9 really suffered without him but the writers kept it alive.
The new stuff created after his death were all trash as far as I am concerned.
Not even the beloved Michelle Yeoh saved discovery for me.
The reboot movies were trash. The new be series were trash. Nice effects. Nice costumes. But none had the writing and vision that existed in that original series or TNG.
He had a vision for the world and a code of ethics that would define me as I grew up.
I always felt like he got it -- what it's like to be different -- and that was the wellspring of his creativity. So many characters have felt representative of me, as an autistic person, in one way or another. It's nice to be seen and appreciated. And the message, that there's a way for us all to work together to each other's mutual benefit, despite our differences, and sometimes even *because* of them, could be seen as a sort of prototype for the neurodiversity movement.
Deborah Preuss, pcc
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Aaron