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Originally Posted by Oberon
Star Trek always seemed to struggle to find its place between the utopia that Roddenbery imagined, and the gritty sci-fi that became popular in the late 1990s, early 2000s. You can see the change in Deep Space Nine when the Dominion get introduced.
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The problem is viewers in general get bored with utopia episodes and look for something that brews trouble and drives plots, ergo the Dominion War for DS9 and Voyager, the Borg threat for TNG, and the Temporal War for Enterprise.
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