The latest Star Trek offerings have struck me as viciously cynical. The future was meant to be a place where humanity strove to be its best. Instead of looking

The latest Star Trek offerings have struck me as viciously cynical. The future was meant to be a place where humanity strove to be its best. Instead of looking forward we have stories that, while not hopeless, certainly reek of pessimism. Apparently the only story we want to tell is about the End of the Cruel American Empire, rather than how our own present could transform into something greater.