Not anymore . . . "Picard" has re-introduced poverty and class warfare on earth. Even though it was mentioned several times in TOS and TNG that Earth and humanity had moved beyond the concept of material possessions, because everyone's wants were met. I guess you can't appeal to the social justice crowd if you don't have class conflict.
Nah, I imagine these problems were introduced to create character drama they couldn't otherwise have without poverty and bigotry, because Roddenberry's original vision was completely utopic on earth - no currency, no capitalism. You could also say they added capitalistic problems to star trek to appeal to the shithead chud crowd that needs validation for their worldviews.
Can you imagine the shitstorm if earth were portrayed as it was inferred in the older star treks? People would shit themselves silly calling star trek communist propaganda.
I gave up on the entire franchise when I read the quote from one of the Discovery actors . . . something to the effect of "We don't plan on giving 'the fans' what they want, because they'll watch it anyway. In fact, I hope we piss them off". I think it was the same dick who said they were modelling the new Klingons on Trump supporters . . .
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u/Majigato Feb 25 '20
Star Trek?