Star Trek XI .. after all?

[GKarsEye]

This thread is making my brain construct a fanfic in which Captain Kirk travels to a planet of landed gentry and bangs a green chick called Elizabeth Bennett after cutting through her rapier wit.

[darth_librarian]

Errm, a load of boring people pontifcating and sitting around not doing much, never truly expressing their emotions? Sounds like TNG to me...

[Chilli]

You did NOT just compare the Star Trek franchise to the collected writings of Jane Austin...

If I noted that Albert Einstein and Adolf Hitler are both dead, would I be comparing Einstein to Hitler?

Though GKE's crossover might have ... potential

And NO, I'm NOT comparing Jane Austen to Adolf Hitler now .. I actually quite enjoy Austen's book - there goes my last spark of masculinity - for many of the reasons Joe mentioned. Rationally, I would have thought I'd have to hate them. The plots are simple and predictable, people's aims in life are old-fashioned beyond comprehension .. but her skill at characterisation and her wit make them quite enjoyable.

Though it might help there that I never *had* to read any of her books.

[GaribaldisHair]

... people's aims in life are old-fashioned beyond comprehension

But probably quite accurately reflected the life aims of people at the time that they were written.