Angela's rant is great, but she also misses something. Season 2 of Picard is when this circus went from 'not getting it' and 'not wanting to make star trek' to being outright evil.
One of the most interesting aspects of Star Trek is how it evolves over time. Which includes how the canon evolves as well. What's key is how this happens in respects to how humanity built its utopia.
In the original series it was a complex trial by fire sort of thing. Fascist eugenics lead to WW3, and humanity got out of its hole with some alien solidarity from the vulcans. Its 1960s style alien messianism combined with cold war fears and the proximity to WW2 that lead to those ideas. 1990s Trek limited itself to calibrating where the emphasis was placed. All of those are still true and part of the story (TNG reminds us of it), but DS9 makes it clear that political struggle for equality and economic freedom were a part of it all while Enterprise reminded everyone that Humans did not achieve utopia by inventing replicators. They didn't even have replicators when they eliminated poverty, hunger and disease.
Picard meanwhile made everything including Climate Change reliant on finding a microbe in space. It's not humanity that overcomes difficulties. It's magic. And that's the showrunner's worldview. It's not just bleak and hopeless. It is that fascism is inevitable because there's no other option other than magic.
Angela's rant is great, but she also misses something. Season 2 of Picard is when this circus went from 'not getting it' and 'not wanting to make star trek' to being outright evil.
One of the most interesting aspects of Star Trek is how it evolves over time. Which includes how the canon evolves as well. What's key is how this happens in respects to how humanity built its utopia.
In the original series it was a complex trial by fire sort of thing. Fascist eugenics lead to WW3, and humanity got out of its hole with some alien solidarity from the vulcans. Its 1960s style alien messianism combined with cold war fears and the proximity to WW2 that lead to those ideas. 1990s Trek limited itself to calibrating where the emphasis was placed. All of those are still true and part of the story (TNG reminds us of it), but DS9 makes it clear that political struggle for equality and economic freedom were a part of it all while Enterprise reminded everyone that Humans did not achieve utopia by inventing replicators. They didn't even have replicators when they eliminated poverty, hunger and disease.
Picard meanwhile made everything including Climate Change reliant on finding a microbe in space. It's not humanity that overcomes difficulties. It's magic. And that's the showrunner's worldview. It's not just bleak and hopeless. It is that fascism is inevitable because there's no other option other than magic.
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