I get that people have the best of intentions when they try to argue that Star Trek isn't a dead franchise, but... this is a series that once had a member of a resistance group inspired by real life Palestinian resistance as a sympathetic main character. And now it's apolitical CGIslop owned by a corporation that runs a blacklist of any actor who's ever spoken in support of Palestine.
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@fuckfetish @gooba42 Ah, thank you for reminding me.
Even if the new shows didn't suffer from a crisis of quality, if you have any respect for the utopian vision of Star Trek and the values it tried to promote, you should understand why we are obligated to avoid supporting Paramount & doing free publicity for them.
But the news shows *do* suffer from a crisis of quality. Because Star Trek without the politics is just people shouting at each other while explosions happen.
Star Trek, as a franchise, exists to look forward. But under its current owners, the only thing Trek can do is look backwards. It has nothing to offer us but shallow nostalgia-bait. And I don't come to Trek because it has cool space people in funny costumes. I come to Trek because it explores ideas that I'll still be thinking about decades in the future.
