I will maintain that I think Final Frontier a much better film than is popularly remembered. It is great to have an exploration and adventure film with strong characters.
Excellent start, Erika. In fact when we look at the Star Trek Universe (from TOS to Strange New Worlds) there is a lot of topics to be explored. Spock would say: "Fascinating". I think that ST is like a desirable future but The Expanse is closer to our reality (exception to the protomolecule). There are some points I would like to add for discussion, if I may. The first contact with the Vulcans thanks to the first warp drive test by Cochrane was fundamental. They helped to expand human knowledge and technology but Vulcans had some control to what humans could do which was not approved by Jonathan Archer (the first Enterprise captain almost 100 years before Kirk). It is interesting to think that Cochrane developed the warp drive after WW III and the Eugenic wars (which I think deserves more detailed attention) when humans faced a kind of barbarian times. That is a timeline that could be more explored, I mean, how humans ended up with poverty and achieved a high level technological development. Today we have the famous Alcubierre's paper from 1994 but not the Physics required for a warp drive. That is another thing I use to compare ST and The Expanse. In fact we are closer to a fusion drive than a warp drive. The Prime Directive is something that we could use as an example today because it shows how important a regulation can be even if it appears to be too rigid in some cases. I am referring to regulations for AI, Biotechnology, for example.
What Roddenberry created is amazing and I hope that can be alive for 50 years more.
Looking forward for the next one, Erika! I loved it. Congratulations.
I will maintain that I think Final Frontier a much better film than is popularly remembered. It is great to have an exploration and adventure film with strong characters.
Excellent start, Erika. In fact when we look at the Star Trek Universe (from TOS to Strange New Worlds) there is a lot of topics to be explored. Spock would say: "Fascinating". I think that ST is like a desirable future but The Expanse is closer to our reality (exception to the protomolecule). There are some points I would like to add for discussion, if I may. The first contact with the Vulcans thanks to the first warp drive test by Cochrane was fundamental. They helped to expand human knowledge and technology but Vulcans had some control to what humans could do which was not approved by Jonathan Archer (the first Enterprise captain almost 100 years before Kirk). It is interesting to think that Cochrane developed the warp drive after WW III and the Eugenic wars (which I think deserves more detailed attention) when humans faced a kind of barbarian times. That is a timeline that could be more explored, I mean, how humans ended up with poverty and achieved a high level technological development. Today we have the famous Alcubierre's paper from 1994 but not the Physics required for a warp drive. That is another thing I use to compare ST and The Expanse. In fact we are closer to a fusion drive than a warp drive. The Prime Directive is something that we could use as an example today because it shows how important a regulation can be even if it appears to be too rigid in some cases. I am referring to regulations for AI, Biotechnology, for example.
What Roddenberry created is amazing and I hope that can be alive for 50 years more.
Looking forward for the next one, Erika! I loved it. Congratulations.