in the 1960s and 70's star trek was aimed at a different audience.
If you saw the origional enterprise-style ship you would have a very hard time beleiving the series was real, peoples' tastes have changed pretty radically.
I havent seen "enterprise" at all yet..since the fastest download i can get from the uni systems is only 50k/sec..i cant be bothered to sit around.
So the series producers find themselves in between remaining faithful to the series, and catering for a different audience (i wont say more sophisticated because you arent, quite frankly)
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