Yet Picard again refuses, citing the non-interference directive that Gowron has already waived by requesting assistance. Picard, the Klingons learn, is not a very valuable friend. What accounts for this incoherent foreign policy? Nothing less than Picard’s commitment to non-commitment. He represents a new, non-judgmental liberalism far shallower than that embraced in Roddenberry’s era. Where Kirk pursues justice, Picard avoids conflict. Just as Kirk’s devotion to universal principles goes deeper than politics, so does Picard’s sentimentalism. When it comes to the universe of real suffering, real need, and a real search for truth, he is content not to decide, not to take responsibility, and not to know.
Actually that particular evolution has to do directly with the audience. When the original series was on TV in the mid-'60s, violence was a way of life (still is, but more so then). By the '90s when TNG came on (with far better writing FWIW), the audience -- the public in general -- had come to figure out that alternatives exist to the idea of dealing with every situation with brute force, fisticuffs, phasers, photon torpedoes and the Vulcan death grip.
Not that complex. You write for, and reflect, the vaues of your current audience.
Same reason cowboys-and-Indians shows don't exist any more -- we outgrew them.
Yeah....you obviously didn't watch the series or understand it....they didn't hate anyone, but stood up to violent aggressors...something you morons don't get.....
How many of the 1960s ST episodes did NOT feature a fistfight somewhere? Were there any at all?
Really? We outgrew them?
The biggest grossing film of the year is Jurassic World.
Followed by Age of Ultron.
And then FUrious 7.
Who brought up movies?