It's at the point where I can't really tell if it's being ironic about it or not.
Remember, The Next Generation was pro-SJW in its time, and Lower Decks is quite deliberately kicking TNG in the shin.
If you want to take a clipboard and rundown all the SJW best-of tropes, does it check a lot of boxes? Sure. But not in a flattering way.
I mean take Becket. Archetypal perfect strong minority female? Yes, and no. Because she's played so far over the top into mary sue territory that she's basically just a font of chaos like Rick Sanchez. And when look at her actual flaws, they're very, very human (again just like Rick) because it's all an act to cover insecurity and having awkward relationships with friends and family on account of not wanting to show any vulnerability.
Boimler on the other hand lampoons Roddenberry's ideals. His lived experiences serve to undermine all those ready room speeches Picard gave. Mark Hamill once said that Luke Skywalker was "the Abbott in a universe of Costellos". That's basically what Boimler is, illustrating how detached Gene's clinically professional sense of morality would be from the reality of a universe full of aliens that MIGHT ACTUALLY think like us (and be as fucked up as us).
I've said for a while that Lower Decks directly appeals to people who liked Star Trek but now believe Star Trek is dead, Jim.
Ah, the golden era of ST when the characters all ran around screaming and making sex jokes.
Lower Decks pokes the dead body of Star Trek with a stick. Picard wears it like a costume.
It's not woke?
It's at the point where I can't really tell if it's being ironic about it or not.
Remember, The Next Generation was pro-SJW in its time, and Lower Decks is quite deliberately kicking TNG in the shin.
If you want to take a clipboard and rundown all the SJW best-of tropes, does it check a lot of boxes? Sure. But not in a flattering way.
I mean take Becket. Archetypal perfect strong minority female? Yes, and no. Because she's played so far over the top into mary sue territory that she's basically just a font of chaos like Rick Sanchez. And when look at her actual flaws, they're very, very human (again just like Rick) because it's all an act to cover insecurity and having awkward relationships with friends and family on account of not wanting to show any vulnerability.
Boimler on the other hand lampoons Roddenberry's ideals. His lived experiences serve to undermine all those ready room speeches Picard gave. Mark Hamill once said that Luke Skywalker was "the Abbott in a universe of Costellos". That's basically what Boimler is, illustrating how detached Gene's clinically professional sense of morality would be from the reality of a universe full of aliens that MIGHT ACTUALLY think like us (and be as fucked up as us).
https://youtu.be/qqtni3A8ciA