• josefo@leminal.spaceEnglish
      12·
      3 months ago

      Old Star Trek is the one before the one that got on TV while you were a kid. I grew up with TNG, so TOS is my old one.

      Another way of measurement could be “was Gene Roddenberry alive and involved when this came out?”, in that case, TOS and a good chunk of TNG are the old ST.

      • lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        7·
        3 months ago

        As someone who doesn’t subscribe to great man theory, I agree on the other point that, and I paraphrase, TOS, TNG and DS9 are old trek.

        Or to quote a different SciFi author:

        I’ve come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:

        1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
        2. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
        3. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

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