LogFAQs > #979346371

Ultimately, Trek can't do a "people suck" plotline. The entire point of the Trek universe is that everyone can be redeemed, or maybe we just have to see their POV. It's Quaker SF. TNG was basically "talking beats fighting". The entire point of Voyager is "Starfleet doesn't cheat". The entire point of Disco is "the far future sucked until they were reminded about Federation ideals". The entire point of Picard is "no one Treks as hard as Picard, and that's why they can't win". Honestly, I love it. But B5's real TV innovation was telling a story where everybody is kind of terrible. If you win, you've sacrificed so much, you can't enjoy it. By the end of B5, we didn't even want the good guys to win. That's not a Trek story, but it was still great SF, and it was very rare at the time. It set the stage for shows like Kirkman's Walking Dead and Invincible.