I don’t even think many people will disagree with that. The appealing thing about Star Trek was always the utopia, the idealism, the philosophical questions, and (in some cases) the sciency details. Most attempts to make Star Trek into some kind of uber-galactic-struggle-between-alien-races or quest-to-avoid-the-destruction-of-the-universe that were the focus of many later sci-fi shows ended up making it worse.
As fully fledged sci-fi universes that were explicitly written with these “big” stories in mind, Mass Effect or The Expanse are clearly ahead.
And not just natives (who are invariably human shaped), they often have entire databases of info on them from presumably when they were “discovered”.
Mass Effect was a better sci fi universe and I’ll die on that hill.
I don’t even think many people will disagree with that. The appealing thing about Star Trek was always the utopia, the idealism, the philosophical questions, and (in some cases) the sciency details. Most attempts to make Star Trek into some kind of uber-galactic-struggle-between-alien-races or quest-to-avoid-the-destruction-of-the-universe that were the focus of many later sci-fi shows ended up making it worse.
As fully fledged sci-fi universes that were explicitly written with these “big” stories in mind, Mass Effect or The Expanse are clearly ahead.
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