The Anti-Trek?

[rachelindeed]

Hi everyone!

BSG has been called the anti-"Star Trek," but I thought it would be fun today to have a little cracky fun imagining the two coming together.  Use the plot generator I've put under the LJ cut below (taken and mildly adapted from Justin B. Rye's Do-It-Yourself Star Trek Script Flowchart) to design your own BSG/Trek lovechild of an episode

Comments

[callmeonetrack]

Hee! Love the Lee-Spock gifs. :) Fun fill in the blanks too!

[rachelindeed]

Hee! Me, too. Eyebrow emotion is their way.

[rachelindeed]

I think it was Ron Moore who started calling it the anti-Trek, actually. He worked on Star Trek for, like, fifteen years -- he got his start as a screenwriter on Star Trek: The Next Generation and then went on to be a writer/ co-producer for Deep Space Nine -- and he said that, though he loved Star Trek a lot and always would, after all those years he was really tired of the limits its format and philosophy built into storytelling. So one of his stated goals for BSG was to tell stories in a way that broke the Star Trek mold, to tell the stories he couldn't approach on Trek..

[thegreenkitty]

IMHO, it's the take on bright shiny futures.

Trek seemed to like wrapping up an episode w a moral and go sailing happily off toward said future.

We see bright shiny futures as overrated (although the discussion of such is a great excuse to flirtingly spit at Lee) and we appreciate the angsty realism. It also gives us more appreciation for the little happy moments bc they aren't guaranteed.

(Disclaimer: I've really only seen classic and next gen Star Trek...I have heard the newer incarnations weren't as cut and dry...and bright/shiny morality can be nice, so not a diss...just saying, bsg was 'messier'...and other than the clusterfrak that was S4/4.5, I kinda prefer it messy. Moral ambiguity is appreciated.)

[winegums]

well, there's the obvious: no 'aliens', limits on technology in-universe, a MUCH more realistic and gritty feel than any iteration of Star Trek was ever allowed to have.

And then there is what rachelindeed and thegreenkitty says too, in terms of story and format limits.

Star Trek: The Battlestar Generation

[rachelindeed]

Whilst investigating a doomed world,

Re: Star Trek: The Battlestar Generation

[winegums]

there are actually a fair few similarities between DS9 and our show, theme-wise, but I like this version better.

Or maybe I'm just biased because I was never as emotionally attached to any of the Trek characters as I was to the cast of BSG...

Re: Star Trek: The Battlestar Generation

[rachelindeed]

I loved them both, myself. I watched DS9 every week when I was in high school. I loved those characters :) Plus Mr. Spock is, well, fascinating.

Yes, when I rewatch DS9 I'm often struck by how very similar the two shows are in many of their themes, plots, and characters. But the tone of BSG is much more naturalistic and gritty, IMO.

Re: Star Trek: The Battlestar Generation

[winegums]

yeah, shows like Firefly and BSG basically spoiled me for all sci-fi/alien-featuring shows forever, after I fell in love with them I wasn't even into Farscape anymore. Star Trek is great and I love Spock too, but it's easier to just idly wonder about things than go absolutely batshit waiting for answers to be given and ships to sail

**forgive my rambling, I'm half asleep**

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[rachelindeed]

HEE! I LOVE THEM! ESPECIALLY THE PICARD DANCE!!!

[n_e_star]

Whenever I see that gif all I can think of is the Picard Song.

[rachelindeed]