Ya know I might watch a four hour video about star trek, but I sure as hell won't watch a four hour video about Star Trek: Picard, a show that I have not watched, that I have no interest in watching and really couldn't care less about what it "does" to Star Trek.
The only actually interesting thing about Star Trek is how it reflects reality and the times it was made in. NuTrek doesn't ruin the original Star Trek, it doesn't even do anything to it. It's just some other random thing that some other random people made because some random company decided is going to increase the value of the "intellectual property" that is the Star Trek™ brand. And the fact that it is bad television made only for profit, that it is a sad and depressing turn for the original vision of the future that Star Trek used to be sometime back in the 60s is kinda sad, but it's also nothing but a reflection of the state of the world in its least creative, visionary and hopeful iteration. Any part of your heart that you put into that nebulous thing that is Star Trek over the years should flow freely from thing to idea to thing and back and not be exclusive to what really amounts to nothing but a brand. It's high time to get over it.
If anything Star Trek has been the poster child of cultural stagnation and reaction for all of its life, it being after all the original "show that got cancelled but then uncancelled after the fandom complained about it for a decade". It's not even just that, it's the original "fandom" show, the show that originated "fanfiction" and everything that comes with it.
And even in its best, most hopeful and visionary form, Star Trek has always really been a terribly limited show: What has it ever been besides "Wagon Train to the stars"? Always taking place at the imagined "frontier", always marching west. Sure, the show might have told you it took place in a post-scarcity quasi-communist utopia, but have its stories and its form ever felt like it?
It's a testament to the sheer force of reaction that followed the 60s (and also and maybe even more the short-sightedness of the 60s themselves) that ever since we have lost not only our ability to imagine a better future, we've even lost the ability to imagine a better television show.
Ya know I might watch a four hour video about star trek, but I sure as hell won't watch a four hour video about Star Trek: Picard, a show that I have not watched, that I have no interest in watching and really couldn't care less about what it "does" to Star Trek.
The only actually interesting thing about Star Trek is how it reflects reality and the times it was made in. NuTrek doesn't ruin the original Star Trek, it doesn't even do anything to it. It's just some other random thing that some other random people made because some random company decided is going to increase the value of the "intellectual property" that is the Star Trek™ brand. And the fact that it is bad television made only for profit, that it is a sad and depressing turn for the original vision of the future that Star Trek used to be sometime back in the 60s is kinda sad, but it's also nothing but a reflection of the state of the world in its least creative, visionary and hopeful iteration. Any part of your heart that you put into that nebulous thing that is Star Trek over the years should flow freely from thing to idea to thing and back and not be exclusive to what really amounts to nothing but a brand. It's high time to get over it.
If anything Star Trek has been the poster child of cultural stagnation and reaction for all of its life, it being after all the original "show that got cancelled but then uncancelled after the fandom complained about it for a decade". It's not even just that, it's the original "fandom" show, the show that originated "fanfiction" and everything that comes with it.
And even in its best, most hopeful and visionary form, Star Trek has always really been a terribly limited show: What has it ever been besides "Wagon Train to the stars"? Always taking place at the imagined "frontier", always marching west. Sure, the show might have told you it took place in a post-scarcity quasi-communist utopia, but have its stories and its form ever felt like it?
It's a testament to the sheer force of reaction that followed the 60s (and also and maybe even more the short-sightedness of the 60s themselves) that ever since we have lost not only our ability to imagine a better future, we've even lost the ability to imagine a better television show.
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