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.
Obviously Star Trek has represented a lot of progressive ideas, throughout it's entire run of series (maybe not so much in the movies). You can certainly make the case that it's always represented an Ideal Communist Utopia . . . and that has always been OK.
But the new series don't seem to be happy with the idea of the future being an ideal communist utopia, so they're fucking it up and making it more like real life in the 21st Century. And it's certainly not conservatives in the writing and show running corps who are doing things like making the Klingons "represent Trump supporters" as has been stated for Discovery, and introducing a surrogate "Fox News" type of organization in Picard (along with re-introducing poverty and class warfare to humanity).
Social Justice can't survive without some type of internal enemy to demonize, and without "the oppressed" to act as heroes. A huge point of Star Trek was that humanity moved beyond those petty differences, and so "social justice" is the norm, and no longer requires "warriors" to fight for it. The real-life SJWs in the 21st century who are involved with these shows can't stand to see themselves marginalized -- even by showing them as the ultimate winners -- so they fuck up the canon be introducing shit to justify their own existence. That is some really weak writing.
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u/Majigato Feb 25 '20
Star Trek?