I don't think he was approaching it from the chud perspective though. NuTrek is objectively bad on all aspects. STD had an fucking Musk reference as one of humanity's greatest "inventors". Michael Burnham was a shit character because the show made her basicaly Jesus, it destroyed the episodic format with an ensemble cast and gave us the piece of shit mistery box JJ with 2 seasons of canon breaking nonsense(did you know the federation is actualy run by a fucking super AI? Yeah me too!) while giving us characters that can be described by a single sentence, the POC Jesus, the Traitor, the eViLLLL dIcTaTOr etc...

And then of course the entire production team still acts like they are moraly superior and dismissed all criticism by claiming it was just chud trolls. This went on beyond STD too, we saw it on Picard S1 which is even worse. At least STD had a couple of interesting moments. Picard is just trash.

To be clear there was some of that chud hate too, but NuTrek is hated by both a portion of the left and all of the right so if you are not careful you will inevitably end up being guilty by association, and Hollywood deserves all the pain the get for being insuffurable libs with a superiority complex while in reality they all have a baby brain understanding of everything.

Anyway so with all that said when we go back to Shatner I think despite him being way too senile already I think he at least understands nuTrek is probably the furthest thing away from Gene's vision, and that is considering some of the shitty TNG movies, some terrible Enterprise and Voyager episodes, and even all the DS9 controversy.

When Trek did "woke" stuff in the 60s it was genuine, they were making history with POC main characters for example.

Nowadays these scumbags think they are making history and being so brave by giving us POWERFUL POC WOMAN MC which is literal caricature of everything Trek stands for.