re: #353 Targetpractice

Gene’s vision was best when filtered through others. Unfiltered, you got the first seasons of TNG, along with an editorial direction that could best be described as “cement shoes.”

To give another example, Gene decreed to staff writers that there was no mourning of the dead by 24th century humans. And this didn’t just apply for adults, he declared that a draft script for an episode where a child takes solace in the death of his mother by retreating to the holodeck didn’t work because kids were expected not to mourn but to just accept death and “move on.”

That would only work in a universe where we wouldn’t care about each other.