Pfffffffff….

Some Americans are trying to create another Star Trek series or movie. Gonna vomit.

Gene Roddenberry created a unique and brilliant TV series in the 1960s which focussed on the moral use of violence. When is violence morally acceptable? The Original Series gave way to a cartoon series then a series of movies. The Next Generation popped up with that same question. Star Trek Voyager followed suit while updating gender role stereotypes in a way all producers ought to note.

Sadly, his vision was lost with his passing. The people who worked closely with him, including Majel, understood why casting humanity in a positive light was important and they continued working toward that goal.

Deep Space Nine and Star Trek Enterprise did not continue this vision and devolved into the same negative attitude on the human experience with the bloody awful movies and Star Trek Discovery hammering nails into that coffin.

The people producing the later versions of Trek, which I call New Trek, are incredibly egocentric. The characters and showrunners demonstrate no awareness that there is a world larger than their egos, and certainly no vision of the future that we could work toward. New Trek movies and Discovery make me hope that climate change hurries up.

And now there’s another New Trek concept floating around.

How did the Federation base its existence on the moral use of violence? How did TOS gain a crew in their 20s – what attitudes and social values would be necessary to fulfil this outcome? Roddenberry was very clear on removing all biases and bigotry from the Star Trek worldview, as well as removing petty emotions such as greed and jealousy: how good can we be? What social changes took place as money was replaced with self-improvement?

These are the questions I would love to see explored in Star Trek, but New Trek is as morally focussed and as self-aware as a drunk driver.