Well, no one is going to like what I have to say.

STRANGE NEW WORLDS is an undeniable hit with Star Trek fans, a very had group to please. What this shows is, I believe, that Star Trek fans will accept diversity… people of color, LGBTQ… they will accept it all, as long as white people are depicted as being in charge and there is a white male in the Captain’s chair.

I am so tired of hearing the excuses for fans not liking the other iterations of Star Trek, particularly DISCOVERY. It’s been dismissed as “woke crap” and even when it isn’t fans will justify their prejudice against it by saying that the writing is no good, or that the characters are too emotional.

What they really mean is that the characters aren’t white enough and the main character isn’t male enough.

Anson Mount’s Pike is every bit as emotional as Michael Burnham, but that’s okay because he’s a man. A man being emotional is perceived as being brave. A woman being emotional is perceived as weak. This is exactly the kind of sexist reading of entertainment that shows like Star Trek are attempting to overthrow.

And, to be honest, the writing so far on STRANGE NEW WORLDS hasn’t been any better than the writing on DISCOVERY or PICARD. If anything, the stories have been playing it pretty safe. And maybe that’s why it’s so popular.

The original STAR TREK challenged viewer’s notions of right and wrong. This newest iteration of Star Trek, it seems to me, does little more than reinforce the status quo.

Tell me I’m wrong.