The Death Of Star Trek

With the release of Star Trek Picard, it's official...Star Trek is dead. They've lost all the spirit of the series...the hope of a better future, the philosophical and ethical questioning, the desire to improve the audience who watches it. They've given up that spirit for cheap and cheesy space-fantasy-drama. Everything inspiring in media has become escape and delusion. Not a vision of a beautiful future, but a dark reflection of our dying civilization.

Some may think I'm being overly critical but you can't create a beautiful society if you can't even envision it. If all we ever dream of are dystopian futures, that's what we'll get...replicas of the current failed paradigm but with better technology. The guardians of the status quo will win because they've bought all the media our youth watch. We see it in the "Comic-book hero universes," notions of service and sacrifice, replaced with ego and "might makes right." Star Wars, which was always a bit pseudo-religious, but at least centered on the principles of balance and perpetuity...now is just pure fantasy, cosmetic fan-service. Now this disaster, a series that has inspired generations of scientists and people who reach for a sustainable and healthy future...now reduced to another piece of Hollywood drama intellectual property.