I watched the entire video, but I timestamped the link to where I believe it matters most for any comrade that ever liked Star Trek, liberal idealistic and quasi-militaristic flaws and all, and would like to see a succinct and thorough summary of what they might have already felt, may have already inductively collected for themselves, but got it drowned out by “well the TNG gang got together by the end of Picard Season 3 so just enjoy it like a popcorn movie, 4/5” or even worse brainworms like “section 31 is based and it’s just cold hard reality that such an agency would have to exist for the Federation to exist, just like in based Deep Space 9 which was totally about wars and genocidal biowarfare plots and how cool and necessary they are.”
The Trek fandom site in the Lemmyverse is loaded with insufferable liberal/libertarian 
and a fair amount of Thermian Arguments that justify anything that was presented on screen as not only good, but necessary if they were done by protagonist characters, and not just the flaws, weaknesses, and (for lack of a better term) sins of characters that weren’t intended to be infallible, let alone blindly emulated, no matter how cool it was when Sisko punched Q or whatever.
TL;DR: I hope comrades find value in this concluding section of a much larger video, or maybe even watch the whole thing, which I also think is worthwhile. Also, I fucking despise Section 31 apologists because they make the Lemmyverse’s Trek site unbearable for me. If Kurtzman gets his way (especially with that Section 31 series he keeps jerking off about), Trek will become increasingly murderfucky gory edgy black ops obsessed bootlicking schlock with a vague and redundant nostalgia flavor.
Angela’s rant is great, but she also misses something. Season 2 of Picard is when this circus went from ‘not getting it’ and ‘not wanting to make star trek’ to being outright evil.
One of the most interesting aspects of Star Trek is how it evolves over time. Which includes how the canon evolves as well. What’s key is how this happens in respects to how humanity built its utopia.
In the original series it was a complex trial by fire sort of thing. Fascist eugenics lead to WW3, and humanity got out of its hole with some alien solidarity from the vulcans. Its 1960s style alien messianism combined with cold war fears and the proximity to WW2 that lead to those ideas. 1990s Trek limited itself to calibrating where the emphasis was placed. All of those are still true and part of the story (TNG reminds us of it), but DS9 makes it clear that political struggle for equality and economic freedom were a part of it all while Enterprise reminded everyone that Humans did not achieve utopia by inventing replicators. They didn’t even have replicators when they eliminated poverty, hunger and disease.
Picard meanwhile made everything including Climate Change reliant on finding a microbe in space. It’s not humanity that overcomes difficulties. It’s magic. And that’s the showrunner’s worldview. It’s not just bleak and hopeless. It is that fascism is inevitable because there’s no other option other than magic.
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