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Star Trek
First off, spoiler alerts. If you have your heart set on seeing the first episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, unbiased, please abort this review. I am about to blow it up. Second off, Star Trek has been my primary soul’s relationship to a universal paradigm that incorporates spirituality and science. It’s important to me. You may say there is no evidence for spirituality in science, or in Star Trek, and you and I can have a philosophical debate in another place and time. For this article, I am expressing sadness, disappointment, even anger, that the one vehicle that has done more to influence television and world history, dare I say humanity in a positive direction, since the 1960s, is being decimated by people who don’t seem to understand Star Trek.
Third off, any complaints I have has nothing to do with the casting. For the most part, the people on the show are just doing a job. They are not responsible for sets and scripts. I am not invested in them just because they have Star Fleet uniforms on. They have to win me.
Star Trek was the only optimistic vision of a future in the 1960s. All other science fiction was heavily slanted towards dystopian, and since the 2008 reboot, Star Trek has gone dark.
Maybe you’ll find my objections petty. Maybe I am just too old, stuck in a lore that no one cares…
