Star Trek canon just officially provided an explanation for one of Gene Roddenberry's strangest rules about the future.
is 60 years old, which means we’ve all gotten rather used to it. As a result, some of the franchise’s many eccentricities slip past our notice, because they’re like old friends who we’re just so used to.
Take, for example, the strangely theatrical way characters – especially captains – talk. There’s something oddly Shakespearean about the dialogue, and deliberately so. “Many comparisons have been made between Shakespeare and , a Klingon quotes a poem and says it sounds better in the original tongue. What we never expected, though, was to get an actual canon reason for the general theatricality ofepisode 8 is perhaps one of the strangest we’ve seen so far. On the one hand, it pays homage to, exploring the emotional impact the loss of his holographic family had on the Doctor centuries ago. It’s an absolutely heart-wrenching story, brilliantly told through Robert Picardo’s captivating performance. But, on the other, all this is told through a surprising lens; namely, the lens of theater. Because the same episode features Mary Wiseman’s Tilly 5 Long Running Sci-Fi Shows on Netflix That You Need To Watch, Including a Newly Added 10-Season MasterpieceGet access to exclusive stories on new releases, movies, shows, comics, anime, games and more!
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