Is any New Trek good? Or is it just all "Pew pew were a prestige TV gritty action show now." stuff?
I'm curious to creck some of the new stuff out but it all looks so not Star Trek
By New Trek I mean Discovery, Picard, Strange New World and Lower Decks
Wow that's a lot of series.
I like the optimism of Star Trek and apparently a lot of New Trek kind of abandons that?
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Strange New Worlds is pretty redeeming as far as New Trek goes. I feel like it's still missing something that the classics had, but it's still so much better than Discovery
SNW is missing the optimism and hopefulness. I know OG Star Trek had a lot of episodes about space battles or weird space diseases, but the crux of it was morality lessons about how future humanity had overcome all the social ills of the modern day. Star Trek has gotten a lot less daring in addressing issues from today I think. Discovery tried to do something similar to climate change with The Burn, but that never hit right with me. SNW has a few episodes about humanizing refugees.
SNW has had a few episodes directed by a trans woman, and a few trans characters show up but it doesn't feel like much is being addressed. It feels like the bare minimum of representation rather than transgression. The main crux is the stories about spaceships. I want Star Trek to do that again, feel transgressive. Even TNG and DS9 still had that transgressive attitude towards the show, injecting in commentary about current human life and how it can be made better.
The "Burn" is honest to god the worst piece of lore in Trek history, probably in major science fiction history
Just a complete inability to appreciate the scale, continuity, and coherence of a setting, it's like it was made by someone who doesn't like Star Trek and is annoyed other people like it, so decided to burn and salt the setting for the sack of a half-baked climate change analogy
At least they had the decency to chuck it a 1000 years ahead of the main setting's timeframe
Yeah that's about how I felt. It's like someone hated Star Trek's rosy optimism and wanted to destroy it. "What if your spaceship show about a brighter future was actually bad and everyone died in a big explosion." Completely missing the point of the show and the setting.