On "real Trek"
Feb. 8th, 2011 03:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cmdr_zoomIn a forum thread on improving the "exploration" experience in STO, one of the Devs made a good post which (among other things) noted that most of what passed for it in the show(s) was really just an excuse to hold a mirror up to contemporary social issues. I was inspired to add:
"I suspect that while it might be very authentic, most players of this game do not want a randomly generated sermon from the Church of the Great Bird to educate them on how Drugs, Homelessness, Pollution, Careless Science, ____ism, and/or The Current War is Bad. Even if it does give merits and loot."
(Yeah, I know I'm posting a lot about it. Consider this the honeymoon. The bitter arguments, gradual estrangement and final separation will come in due time.)
"I suspect that while it might be very authentic, most players of this game do not want a randomly generated sermon from the Church of the Great Bird to educate them on how Drugs, Homelessness, Pollution, Careless Science, ____ism, and/or The Current War is Bad. Even if it does give merits and loot."
(Yeah, I know I'm posting a lot about it. Consider this the honeymoon. The bitter arguments, gradual estrangement and final separation will come in due time.)
