It's difficult to see now, since time has left the original Star Trek series so hopelessly outdated and campy, but that was the thing that made it easier to suspend disbelief when I discovered that series in first reruns in the early '70's. They treated tricorders and transporters and warp drive as ordinary technology, something to be used and abused and sworn at but never something that was treated with awe or overly effusive deference like some of the poorly written sci-fi of the '60's. I had the pleasure to attend a lecture by Gene Roddenberry when I was in college, he felt that it was important to treat the technology with that attitude and reserve the "gee whiz" stuff for the deliberately strange things they encountered in each episode.
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Date: 2008-05-11 12:51 am (UTC)It's difficult to see now, since time has left the original Star Trek series so hopelessly outdated and campy, but that was the thing that made it easier to suspend disbelief when I discovered that series in first reruns in the early '70's. They treated tricorders and transporters and warp drive as ordinary technology, something to be used and abused and sworn at but never something that was treated with awe or overly effusive deference like some of the poorly written sci-fi of the '60's. I had the pleasure to attend a lecture by Gene Roddenberry when I was in college, he felt that it was important to treat the technology with that attitude and reserve the "gee whiz" stuff for the deliberately strange things they encountered in each episode.
Tom-