Star Trek: TNG - Season 2 Dec 4

[blonde_devil]

I don't know - I think Code of Honor may be worse than Shades of Grey. Shades was just a poor episode but Code of Honor was amazingly bad. but that is what I mean about them using TOS mentality - in TOS, you wouldn't be able to get away with that so it would have been some alien but it wouldn't have come across so bad. but since they were in syndication and didn't have to answer to a network, they didn't really need to disguise them as aliens and it failed. I don't know what they were thinking but they really missed the boat on that. at least Shades had a reason for being so bad.

I think the TOS people were involved more than people know. Roddenberry was know to rewrite scripts a lot and Fontana used to rewrite on TOS so I am sure she did the same here regardless of whose name is there as writer. not to knock their writing but I think they were stuck in that TOS mindset when it came to writing and since they had final say, they could rewrite any script they wanted to be what they wanted(more so Roddenberry). I don't want to rag on Roddenberry because he did create Trek but watch the Writers Room bit on Season 3 - you do have to question what he was doing sometimes. I think when he started to give up that control and more oversaw the series was when things started to improve - season 1 had some good episodes, same with 2(too bad the season was short) but season 3 when Piller really took over the writing staff is when it really started to gel.

all I will say about JJ is look at the speech Khan gives when he is in the brig and Kirk is questioning him. In Wrath of Khan, he tells how his people swore to live and die at his command. not that he didn't care about them but their lives were up to him. in JJ's world, this genetically superior tyrant is outsmarted by a human who threatens to kill his people and Khan whines about it. saw that clip on youtube and realized I will never watch that movie.