The problem with Star Trek ever since Berman took over is that the show is no longer about mankind becoming a better race than we started as. It's become about our mastery of Time Travel. Berman has stated on several occasions that the whole point of the Trek timeline is that it's about how we master the ability to control Time and Space. In essence, we're becoming Time Lords. It's the final step on his 1,000 year timeline, if you consider everything up to the Enterprise J. We become Time Lords, with time-traveling spacecraft, and we make it our business to ignore expanding our frontier in the universe in favor of screwing around with time as we see fit. The Iconian war isn't about whether or not we gained or lost territory, because Time Lords don't care about territory. We won because we mastered the Time Game. And that's the only game the developers care about talking about.
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Those who fear the darkness have never seen what the light can do.
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Those who fear the darkness have never seen what the light can do.