The destruction of Star Trek

I just saw the new Star Wars film: The Last Jedi and I couldn’t help but to feel jealous of the SW fans. Star Wars still feels like Star Wars after 40 years. It was a pretty good film even with the “history repeating itself” unimpressive plot. Star Wars heroism, the Jedi cult, good vs. evil, authoritarianism vs. democracy, light sabre fighting, huge cruise ships, fantastical weapons, the family drama, and Yoda… is all there. Even the initial scrolling introduction does not change! It was all there.

Many people don’t understand the destruction done to Star Trek after the J.J. Abrams reboot, culminating in the absolute tragedy of Discovery. These people are either Star Wars fans who don’t understand the genetics of Star Trek or are the millennium generation who grew up with Marvel films and their copy-paste scripts. They know nothing about Captain Picard’s struggles with ethical dilemmas, Captain Kirk bold exploration of the galaxy seeking out new babes and new life forms or Captain Janeway’s efforts to keep her values and the values of mankind even when cut off from human civilisation thousands of light years away.

So while SW fans want to crucify George Lucas over Jar Jar Binks and the nuances of Star Wars plots, they fail to understand how Star Wars mostly remained intact while Star Trek didn’t.

Purists are always going to be upset, sure. But there are limits over which you must not cross, at the risk of ripping off the soul of the show, beyond recognition. To deny the existence of these limits is to deny any limitations in art. There are differences between a Dali and a Picasso or between Mozart and Elvis Presley even though is all painting and music.

Star Trek changed so much that to accuse it’s fans of purism is simply to deny any limits to which you can change a wagon into a Ferrari and still call the Ferrari a wagon…

I am not a purist, if I was one I wouldn’t understand the dramatic change between the original series with Kirk and the New Generation. There was a dramatic change but ST remained ST.

And what is exactly Star Trek? Just like the Star Wars intro is part of the genetics of the franchise, ST intro holds a big clue just to what ST is all about.
Star Trek is “… to explore strange new worlds. To seek out new life and new civilisations. To boldly go where no man has gone before!”. Star Trek is about optimism, is about a dramatic representation that humanity can overcome it’s differences if it wants to. It is above all, taking the journey to better oneself by facing adversity. Is about sticking to humanistic principles. This is lost.

So that Star Wars fans understand the extent to which this was destroyed lets do an example on how could SW be destroyed so much that it matched what was done to ST.

Suppose that Kylo Ren wasn’t really the son of Leia and Solo, but an alien from another parallel Universe that was capable of controlling matter with his mind, but didn’t really possessed the “force”. Leia retired in Tatooine and opened a pub with Jabba the hutt. Yoda now looks like a Gremlin and was dressed by Versace for no reason. Rey made herself the leader of the resistance and was employing ruthless tactics to break the moral of the First Order, such as planting bombs in government buildings killing indiscriminately… because you know, war is war. Luke commands the Millenium falcon and is trying to convince his sister to leave retirement and come with him to the past in a time machine to get Darth Vader to fight Kylo and Rey, but she refuses to go after confessing her love for Jaba the hutt… Oh and on top of it all you would have wookies and Chewbacca talking to each other in their original language all the time, crucial parts of the plot, which forced you to read subtitles for those scenes.

This is how ST was destroyed. And when you understand this you will understand why there is more Star Trek in Seth Macfarlane’s Orville than on this shifting dark plot (even the ship needs more lamps) with surreal and overly pretentious characters which is Discovery.

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