I just don’t get it. What is the freaking problem of those directors, trying to rewrite federation into some kind of dystopian tech fascism?

I was annoyed by the first Star Trek movie by JJ Abrams, with those police cops. I was alienated by those anti-android resentments in Picard. I stopped watching Discovery after the first episode, because the main protagonist was sent to some kind of labor prison for disobedience, where prisoners regularly die. I didn’t think it could get any worse but just watching the first 10 minutes of Starfleet Academy makes me want to bury the whole franchise [edit: and stopped watching]. Some drumhead court-martial, lifelong prison sentence, violently separating a mother from her child and some goons beating up a prisoner. How in the hell is this the same federation of TNG, Voyager and DS9?

Star Trek is supposed to be the ONE fiction with a positive, utopian view on mankind and the future. I totally get the attraction of dystopian settings but for that I can read some Warhammer 40k novels. This really makes me furious.

Fortunately there is still Strange New Worlds.

Please spoiler me, when this bullshit in Starfleet Academy gets turned around in some twist, because otherwise I will just ignore the show.

  • MadMadBunny@lemmy.caEnglish
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    10 hours ago

    So, you jumped on the conclusion that you don’t like any recent Star Trek series, even though you didn’t even try listening more than ten minutes of the first episode of each—while remaining fully biased, yet you insist on criticizing every decision based one whatever you assume all these new series are about, and shit on them, hoping to reinforce your opinion about them.

    This is what you sound like: “Huh, so, I opened the book, read the first sentence of the preface, didn’t hook me, so fuck it didn’t read it at all, but let me tell you all how this book is so bad and doesn’t explain anything about what they claim to do, and how they should stick to writing then exactly how they did 60 years ago, just like my grandma used to…”

    Do you truly want the answers you claim to seek?

    Then how about you actually attentively listen to those entire series in full. You’d be surprised how they might give you more answers than you could possibly imagine.

    Stop wasting our time. You want to criticize the new series, at least have the decency to actually watch them first.

    • Chemo@feddit.orgOPEnglish
      22·
      10 hours ago

      So, you jumped on the conclusion that you don’t like any recent Star Trek series

      Not at all. I love Lower Decks and Strange New Worlds.

      yet you insist on criticizing every decision

      I am not criticizing “a decision”, I am criticizing a trend.

      so fuck it didn’t read it at all

      Which would be very wise, because otherwise I would waste even more of my time.

      Do you truly want the answers you claim to seek?

      Yes, because that would help me to decide if I am just wasting my time, continuing with the show. But don’t bother. Other, kinder people have already been much more helpful then you.