I watched “Star Trek: The Next Generation�...

I watched “Star Trek: The Next Generation� with low expectations and I wasn’t disappointed. In the first few minutes I heard, in at least two instances, contemporary slang being used. Why do I get the impression that today’s scripts are crafted by inexperienced 20-year-olds with no concept of any culture except their own? Perhaps it’s because that in over 70 episodes of the original “Star Trek� and in all the heated conversations that Capt. Kirk had with aliens, I never once heard an alien riposte “Oh yeah?�

H. Q. Herman, Van Nuys