What's also been interesting to me is the more recent sci-fi shows like Battlestar Galactica or Stargate:Universe that try and set up a Star Trek like moral dilemma, and you know exactly what a Star Trek TNG captain would do, and the writers will cause the Captain to take the opposite moral choice, often for good reasons.
It's a bit like the TNG ethics are being used as an ethical framework to bounce modern issues off of and continue the cause of sci-fi as social commentary, but in a sense the commentary is the upright TNG style morals and how desperate circumstances might make it difficult to uphold those values.
It's a bit like the TNG ethics are being used as an ethical framework to bounce modern issues off of and continue the cause of sci-fi as social commentary, but in a sense the commentary is the upright TNG style morals and how desperate circumstances might make it difficult to uphold those values.