Clicked on one of those astroturfed youtube vids of a battle involving the Kaylon or whatever and I kept getting bombarded with 'The Orville' Youtube shorts in the days since. One of them was about that Abortus guy and his husband fighting over their kid's gender.
I never got passed episode three or four of the first season, so I had no idea. These are such thinly veiled Hollywoke talking points and specific political pet peeves. You must be absolutely blind to not see what was going on. Charlize 'My Sons Are Girls Now' Theron was also on the show.
And this microwaved slop was supposed to be the acceptable normie alternative to Star Trek Disco/STD?
To me, its comparative success is evidence that good writing can conceal many sins.
It’s actually not so much the politics that’s the problem, it’s the smugness, heavy-handedness, and preachiness of most woke stuff that bothers me.
I like to think I’d feel the same way if my own politics were depicted in the star trek universe in that way. I think I’d cringe pretty hard if captain Kirk looked off into space at the end of an episode and said “with gods help, we shall never surrender our precious 2nd amendment and thus suffer the fate of those poor bastards on cucktonia prime’