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...then The Next Generation (hereafter TNG) arrived in 1987. It was still goofily Utopian - with its sliding doors and ambient lighting and free-flowing synthehol (booze that doesn't give you a hangover), the Enterprise-D looked like a Qantas Club airport lounge - but somehow I didn't care. TNG wasn't dirty and real like Star Wars or degraded and cyberorganic and cosmopolitan like Blade Runner. This was the other future, the one that wasn't ever actually going to happen, but you wished it would. And it was riveting. Unconstrained by plausibility or topicality, TNG was free...
...embarassing to see how silly the new Star Trek is. Here they drink synthehol, an alcohol-like substance whose effects disappear at will. They don't say "aye, aye" anymore but "I'll make it so." The Landing Party is now the Away Team. And to top it off, they are allies with the Klingons...
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