I disagree that Enterprise is the greatest miss in the franchise history as ALL of the JJTrek product falls far, far below that.
Enterprise wasn't great but it was following in the footsteps of the degredation that started near the end of DS9, accelerated with Voyager and then became the weak sauce that is Enterprise. I can't help but roll my eyes with "Well Voyager wuz woke!" - Yes... yes it was, no argument there! For TOS I can point to dozens of memorable episodes, TNG has fewer but still great high points, DS9 has fewer than TNG but still has some really excellent stories in there. Voyager? There's only one episode that stands out to me (2 if you count "Threshold" and that's not because I liked it... and also had to look up the episode) Enterprise had nothing memorable except the disastrous finale. (although I liked Manny Coto's attempts near the end and I liked his work on Odyssey 5)
Personally I think the trend of Star Trek here follows our society's descent into dumbing down our society and promoting communism.
It wasn't "woke" as we know it today with all the transgenderism (although TNG had an episode that dealt with that and, of course, "conversion therapy") But it was woke in the sense that they "abandoned all currency and the desire for things" in TNG (and brought back capitalism in DS9 with the Ferengi). All villainous groups were shown to be ultimately just misunderstood good people.
I disagree that Enterprise is the greatest miss in the franchise history as ALL of the JJTrek product falls far, far below that.
Enterprise wasn't great but it was following in the footsteps of the degredation that started near the end of DS9, accelerated with Voyager and then became the weak sauce that is Enterprise. I can't help but roll my eyes with "Well Voyager wuz woke!" - Yes... yes it was, no argument there! For TOS I can point to dozens of memorable episodes, TNG has fewer but still great high points, DS9 has fewer than TNG but still has some really excellent stories in there. Voyager? There's only one episode that stands out to me (2 if you count "Threshold" and that's not because I liked it... and also had to look up the episode) Enterprise had nothing memorable except the disastrous finale. (although I liked Manny Coto's attempts near the end and I liked his work on Odyssey 5)
Personally I think the trend of Star Trek here follows our society's descent into dumbing down our society and promoting communism.
Eh, JJTrek was always going to fail, so I don't consider it a "miss" per say. Just a regular failure.
Star Trek was never "woke" it was just liberal and progressive, but it always was.
I agree that it's descent mirrors are push towards communism. At least Hollywood's.
It wasn't "woke" as we know it today with all the transgenderism (although TNG had an episode that dealt with that and, of course, "conversion therapy") But it was woke in the sense that they "abandoned all currency and the desire for things" in TNG (and brought back capitalism in DS9 with the Ferengi). All villainous groups were shown to be ultimately just misunderstood good people.
Except for the Ferengi because capitalists are inherently evil.
Shame Manny Coto died, he seemed to have some idea of what Star Trek was supposed to be at least.