The new Treks have basically become mouthpieces for the woke crowd.

in tv •  3 years ago 

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There are a lot of reasons why I lost my love for Star Trek after Abrams, Kurtzman, Orci, and Lindelof took over. Really, a lot of the new fans are insufferable and seem to love talk down to the people who have been fans for thirty years or more.

Of course, there's just a lot of dumb story telling like Pike putting Kirk in charge of the Enterprise rather than his first officer, literally curing death, so-on. The characters are all dumb and immature and behaving in ways that the original crew never would. The three post-Abrams films are filled with half-assed redos including having a scene with a depressed Kirk talking about how he's past his prime and if he's where he wants to be; only, that scene made sense in Wrath of Khan and zero sense in Beyond.

Michael Burnham doesn't belong anywhere in the Star Trek universe. That kind of hubris from a first officer to incapacitate your Capitan and mentor and take command of the ship in order to start a war is unheard of in Star Trek characters who are supposed to he protagonists.

The new fans do love to school scoff at us when we point out that the new Treks have basically become mouthpieces for the woke crowd. Yes, Star Trek has always been forward thinking and focused on a lot of moral messages. That doesn't mean that Star Trek was "woke" or that all the new shows are just keeping the progressive trend going. What's true, of course, is that a white man kissing a black woman wouldn't be terribly controversial now like it was in the sixties; so, making a statement would have to deal with something that's more controversial now. But, what was always so great about Star Trek was that even though they knew that they were going to be stirring up controversy, they weren't handling it like that on camera. It was a show about a future in which minor things like race never even crossed people's minds.

Of course, I refuse to even look at Lower Decks and Prodigy. Still, those series were inevitable. They've been appealing to people who don't like to think for years.

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