Modern Star Trek is too concerned with checking boxes
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RisaExcerpt from 'Star Trek: The Official Guide to the Animated Series'
It’s only logical.
If the point of this is to draw the false conclusion that TOS was checking boxes as much as modern Trek, it's simpleminded and wrong. TOS was acknowledging social issues back in the pre-metrics era, before the media industry even drew up the checklist. Back In the '60s it was Roddenberry and a few others wanting the show to do some responsible things. Today the "thought" process aims to identify social cohorts that generate enough buzz among consumers to be worth pandering to.
Representation is not pandering.
I do agree with you that the modern iterations of Trek are not nearly as progressive relative to our time as TOS was in the 60s.
Arf arf
Well said
Never heard that. Thanks for posting.
