I also havent seen any of the new Star Trek (Discovery or Picard) directly, just the reviews and video essays on them.
Definitely not disagreeing on anything you said in yours since it is also true. I will say this though about what I have seen of new Trek:
What Start Trek has since become is likely what has happened to many on the Left: they are tired of being a vanguard and now want to be rulers.
Not only does it seem like they have made that change, they have become bitter nihilistic rulers on top of it all. Since it is the one that is fresh in my mind, Patrick Stewart deliberately helped to make the Federation as depicted in Picard into a xenophobic, totalitarians hellscape that oppresses and brutalizes the Romulans despite the fact that they are "refugees" since they lost their planet. And Stewart has made it abundantly clear he did this because he is still salty over Trump and Brexit being things that happened.
But he went further and decided to make Picard himself into a frail old man who can no longer diplomacy his way out of situations because "You are past your prime old man!" and "Why should we listen to a washed up has-been of a Starfleet commander?" and is frequently disrespected by the newer Starfleet officers.
And this is before we get into the fact that New Trek is generally full of much more fighting and killing than Old Trek, as well as frequent depictions of gore, brutal torture, and other displays of violence that would have never flown in Old Trek outside except for the occasional instance to make a point.
EDIT: And oh yeah. The typical Starfleet crew now acts less like professional military and scientific personal and more like emotionally stunted teenagers who backtalk their commanding officers in just about every interaction. I am sure says nothing about the quality of the writers.
because "You are past your prime old man!" and "Why should we listen to a washed up has-been of a Starfleet commander?" and is frequently disrespected by the newer Starfleet officers.
I also havent seen any of the new Star Trek (Discovery or Picard) directly, just the reviews and video essays on them.
Definitely not disagreeing on anything you said in yours since it is also true. I will say this though about what I have seen of new Trek:
Not only does it seem like they have made that change, they have become bitter nihilistic rulers on top of it all. Since it is the one that is fresh in my mind, Patrick Stewart deliberately helped to make the Federation as depicted in Picard into a xenophobic, totalitarians hellscape that oppresses and brutalizes the Romulans despite the fact that they are "refugees" since they lost their planet. And Stewart has made it abundantly clear he did this because he is still salty over Trump and Brexit being things that happened.
But he went further and decided to make Picard himself into a frail old man who can no longer diplomacy his way out of situations because "You are past your prime old man!" and "Why should we listen to a washed up has-been of a Starfleet commander?" and is frequently disrespected by the newer Starfleet officers.
And this is before we get into the fact that New Trek is generally full of much more fighting and killing than Old Trek, as well as frequent depictions of gore, brutal torture, and other displays of violence that would have never flown in Old Trek outside except for the occasional instance to make a point.
EDIT: And oh yeah. The typical Starfleet crew now acts less like professional military and scientific personal and more like emotionally stunted teenagers who backtalk their commanding officers in just about every interaction. I am sure says nothing about the quality of the writers.
The problem is, this is how the Left always treats old people that aren't politicians. The central feature of Progressivism in how it treats old people is exactly that: former Progressives who didn't change with the times and are now Conservatives. Those former-progressives are now enemies of the current regime, and their accomplishments deserve to be discredited by the moral failings they never knew they had.
So, like always, Stewart is talking to himself as a Leftist, rather than others.