Fox Column Condemns New Star Trek Series As “Woke”

David Marcus writes for Fox News:

The first blatant example of electioneering, on Star Trek Discovery, was a cameo by current and former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams as none other than the President of Federation of Planets. The second was a weird plot twist in the pilot of new show, Strange New Worlds in which the 2020 capitol riot is depicted and blamed for starting a Second American Civil War and the destruction of the planet. To put it more succinctly, Orange man bad.

To be fair, since the original 1960s series Star Trek has always delved into cultural and societal issues. It has always been credited with diverse casts, with tackling issues like saving the whales (remember that?) and with reflecting American and global foreign policy. All of that should live long and prosper, but these two recent incidents go a good deal farther. This isn’t issue advocacy, it’s pure partisan politics.

Read the full column.

Marcus, not incidentally, is the author of “Charade: The COVID Lies That Wrecked A Nation.”

Paramount+ has posted the full first episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds on YouTube and I’ve cued up the scene mentioned above.

OPINION: Star Trek writers take Starship Enterprise where it’s never gone before—woke politics https://t.co/Nnd9edeTBN

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