Watched the first two episodes of 'Lower Decks'.
You're supposed to 'rock out' with the death metal loving 'black female lead', while laughing at the danger-hair beta male. The subtext is so obviously woke that I fail to see why some of you tried to give this a pass. Perhaps it will get better later on, but you'll have to suffer through all the 'I got this' college/social media female humor throughout.
The Joss Whedon quippy writing, the uber-competent females, the obnoxious black female captain, the obnoxious black female lead, and the less than impressive male side characters.
This show is also part of the hostile take over of the Star Trek franchise by left-liberal feminist writers.
There's a staggering number of people out there who haven't grown past the assumption that they must consume some sort of modern content. These people have probably never pirated so much as a 80's Saturday morning cartoon in their lives.
As the content across the board has grown poor-quality, ideology-driven, didactic, a very full, colorful, and blooming garden of rank-smelling trash, these folks have had their expectations lowered and their critical faculties dulled. They've had to either acquiesce to watching agenda-laden drivel with an open (blank, dulled) mind, or are on an ongoing hunt for the least worst content.
I think this is why just about all modern content has that same irreverent tone: If anything was taken at all seriously, it might encourage brains to start engaging, and inviting a critical eye toward the content, and they can't have that. As long as the clown nose is in play, the trash content can always use "Why you taking things so seriously?" as a rejoinder that shields the slop from criticism.
This is so very true for an incomprehensible amount of people out there.
Every time I attempt to bring up the incongruity and nonsensical framing of various events in modern media, people will literally respond with "it's just fiction", and yes, dismiss anyone taking the plotholes and irreverence seriously enough to point them out as detractors.
Thankfully, there have been some people who will chime in to point out the dissonance of the normie-tier reasoning because they'll rightly ask, "If it's fiction, then why not have teleporting fire-breathing zombie dinosaurs attack everyone?' at that point the conversation goes off the rails, but yes, way too many people have been dulled into accepting corpo-slop as the standard and turning their brains off so they don't have to think critically.
It's essentially Idiocracy in real life.