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The issue is Trek is traditionally fantasy utopia-esque escapism where Humanity is trying to solve, in large part, the galaxy's issues, not their own. Speaking
by halfmatthalfcat 4y ago
The issue is Trek is traditionally fantasy utopia-esque escapism where Humanity is trying to solve, in large part, the galaxy's issues, not their own. Speaking for myself, when I watch Trek I don't want to be constantly bombarded with our current IRL problems - I want to escape.
Current Trek is the complete opposite; it's constantly punching you in the mouth with today's problems. If I want to be inundated with today's problems, I'll turn the news on. It's not risky, it's lazy. All of the writing is so on-the-nose it's insulting.
- krapp 4y agoStar Trek has always been primarily about humanity's problems, and deeply entrenched in the politics of the day. TOS was Cold War geopolitics in space. TNG was a morality play with science fiction tacked on. DS9 analogizes any number of conflicts from Northern Ireland to the Kosovo War to post-Nazi occupied Europe. The galaxy's issues have almost always been metaphors for real-world politics. Maybe between old Trek and new Trek, the politics were more layered in allegory and are now more overt, but it was always there.
- lostmsu 4y agoAs an expat Russian, I had hard time watching DS9 since the invasion into Ukraine started.