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[–]Femaleisnthateful 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Agree with everything you said. I'm hate-watching Discovery right now. The franchise has fundamentally changed, and the showrunners are on the record as saying they wanted to break from tradition. The appeal of Star Trek of old was that it wasn't rooted in contemporary politics. It appealed to people of all backgrounds, and used futuristic settings to allow people to detach from their contemporary biases, while presenting an optimistic, humanist vision.

The current version of Star Trek is obsessed with appealing to Woke ideology. It won't age well.

[–]Omina_Sentenziosa 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Not only the woke ideology, but this trend to make everything edgy and dark is really annoying and unoriginal (not just for Star Trek).

It's funny for me to see how much my opinions on the matter changed in the past 3 decades, though. When I was a child and started watching TNG, I was craving less optimistic and frankly cheesy "let's all Kumbaya together" storylines. When DS9 started airing I was in heaven because it had the right amount of optimism but it also had a more negative description of humans and I absolutely loved it (same goes for VOY: both shows really showed that humans can indeed turn vicious and evil if necessity arises and I thought it was much more believable that what TNG was selling).

But now??? Jesus, give me alien giant jellyfishes holding tentacles because they are happy to be together again as much as possible! I absolutely loathe the fact that they went all "everything is bad and will get even worse". If I wanted to witness that I would watch the news. I need some freaking hope that as a race we are not completely rotten.

I also agree with the fact that it was talking about politics and social issues without being specific and as such it appealed to more people. Right now, it's like they are completely focused on American politics and what is happening there (like the fact that it was stated that Picard is the child of the Trump administration). It's like they can't talk about anything but how awful Trump is, as of nothing else is happening in the World.

I live in another country, i want to watch something that has broader topics not just TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP!