I cannot find a single thing about him that’s likable. His ideas are all fucking stupid, and he only got to where he is now through rampant exploitation, disregard for safety in his factories, and stealing the “founder” title from every company he bought. He literally just bought his way to the top, and for some reason people see him as a deity. He isn’t charismatic, like a cult leader, and he gives off the impression that he peaked in middle school. So what about him is so likable to people? I don’t get it, and I probably never will.
You want to live in a better world.
The only place that offers you a vision of a better world is science fiction. The sci fi future is supposed to be better because it has cool things - flying/self-driving/nuclear cars, a colony on mars, that sort of thing - not because of anything relating to living standards or material well being or whatever.
The only methods of enacting change that your society acknowledges are: A - voting, and B - hoping some brilliant billionaire inventor does it for you.
None of the politicians are offering you a science fiction future. Of the billionaires, Elon Musk is the one putting his money into the cool future things. Elon Musk is your hero.
What zero Star Trek does to an MF
Star Trek Discovery features an Elon Musk reference :agony-immense: :picard-direct-action:
Disco and Picard are revisionist. Lower Decks is the True Star Trek. Prodigy seems like crap based on the one episode I've seen and I have weird optimism about Strange New Worlds cause Anson Mount as Pike is fucking perfect and I want more of it.
Discovery and Picard aren't Star Trek. Lower Decks is Star Trek, but it's bad Star Trek. LD has potential to be good but they need to have Mariner evolve in some way. She reminds me of Rick from Richard and Mortimer and not in a good way.
Mariner already started getting somewhere by the end of the first season and it has continued along with Boimler slowly coming into his own. Season 2 takes a lot of wind out of Mariner's sails, which I just realized was a pun. They've had less episodes than a single season of old Trek and at half the episode length each. I think they've done quite well with character depth considering it is still a more or less episodic comedy.
Good analysis