They are doing in 2020 what the originals did in the 60's. It is not as if Trek wasn't always obvious allegories e.g Klingons = Soviets etc.
But even the great DS9 wasn't built on this, special episodes like Bell riots or Homefront(9/11 precursor) worked because they were unique and detached from "paradise".
So either you have an extremely gifted team like DS9 that could pull of a pre 9/11 allegory(Homefront) or you spin it up a little by going to the past like Bell.
But nuTrek isn't just 1 or 2 grim episodes per season, they want a 10 episode season built around these themes and so it was doomed to fail.
They are doing in 2020 what the originals did in the 60's. It is not as if Trek wasn't always obvious allegories e.g Klingons = Soviets etc.
But even the great DS9 wasn't built on this, special episodes like Bell riots or Homefront(9/11 precursor) worked because they were unique and detached from "paradise".
So either you have an extremely gifted team like DS9 that could pull of a pre 9/11 allegory(Homefront) or you spin it up a little by going to the past like Bell.
But nuTrek isn't just 1 or 2 grim episodes per season, they want a 10 episode season built around these themes and so it was doomed to fail.