• Docandersonn@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    At its core, the Gilligan’s Island model relies on the lagoon as its main source of conflict – something floats in, the castaways have to deal with it. The lagoon remains constant, the things in it change. Most ship-based Star Treks are anti-Gilligans Island shows in so far as they are what’s floating into someone else’s lagoon. They remain constant, the lagoon changes.

    If anything, I would say DS9 is the better Gilligan’s Island analogue, with the wormhole acting as the lagoon.

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        4 months ago

        Fuckin and?? Voyager moves, to get home they must not leave voyager but voyager leave the lagoon. The fact they both want to get home does not make it the same model

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      4 months ago

      In Voyager, the ship is the lagoon. It’s probably got the same square footage as the island. Just look at Voyager as static and the rest of the galaxy is moving past it, washing up shenanigans every week.

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        Just look at Voyager as static and the rest of the galaxy is moving past it, washing up shenanigans every week.

        Instead of looking at it as it actually is? The lagoon is the delta qdt and to get home voyager as a whole must leave it, not to get home they must leave voyager.

        The person you are replying to got it right, you’re trying to force voy into the gilligan’s model

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          4 months ago

          Wipe away your tears, chill out, we’re just having fun playing around, this isn’t a serious discussion. Go rain on someone else’s parade.