"Far Beyond the Stars" (Sisko lives out a vision of himself as a writer in the 50s experiencing racial discrimination) was a good episode in spite of it's woke/progressive plot, not because of it. The connection to the actual story line of the show was extremely thin, but seeing all the regulars without makeup but still portraying similar-in-spirit characters was really neat. And as usual the show was extremely well written, produced, and acted (with possible exception to Avery Brooks magnum opus performance at the end "IT'S REEEEAL". I liked it cause I like over-the-top).
Despite Sisko being widely touted in the press as Star Trek's "first black captain" (before the second first black captain dropped in Discovery), the character's race was never mentioned previously on the show, nor did the show feature any plot lines or stories that could be construed as relating to contemporary racial politics (minor xenophobia towards aliens portrayed as literal space nazis was about as far as it went).
Because of that the "commentary" contained in the episode was pretty much "racism happened in the 50s, and it was bad". No allusion or allegory whatsoever to any present tense issue. Really the only reason the episode was made is because Avery Brooks wanted to make it (and direct it).
Of course nowadays with NuTrek it's even worse as contemporary woke politics is inserted for similarly zero reasons with regard to plot, but also with the assumption that those politics still exist in the exact same way 400 or 1000 years from now. And instead of being shoehorned into one or two episodes they are endemic. And the writing and acting suck.
"Far Beyond the Stars" (Sisko lives out a vision of himself as a writer in the 50s experiencing racial discrimination) was a good episodes in spite of it's woke/progressive plot, not because of it. The connection to the actual story line of the show was extremely thin, but seeing all the regulars without makeup but still portraying similar-in-spirit characters was really neat. And as usual the show was extremely well written, produced, and acted (with possible exception to Avery Brooks magnum opus performance at the end "IT'S REEEEAL". I liked it cause I like over-the-top).
Despite Sisko being widely touted in the press as Star Trek's "first black captain" (before the second first black captain dropped in Discovery), the character's race was never mentioned previously on the show, nor did the show feature any plot lines or stories that could be construed as relating to contemporary racial politics (minor xenophobia towards aliens portrayed as literal space nazis was about as far as it went).
Because of that the "commentary" contained in the episode was pretty much "racism happened in the 50s, and it was bad". No allusion or allegory whatsoever to any present tense issue. Really the only reason the episode was made is because Avery Brooks wanted to make it (and direct it).
Of course nowadays with NuTrek it's even worse as contemporary woke politics is inserted for similarly zero reasons with regard to plot, but also with the assumption that those politics still exist in the exact same way 400 or 1000 years from now. And instead of being shoehorned into one or two episodes they are endemic. And the writing and acting suck.
"Far Beyond the Stars" (Sisko lives out a vision of himself as a writer in the 50s experiencing racial discrimination) was a good episodes in spite of it's woke/progressive plot, not because of it. The connection to the actual story line of the show was extremely thin, but seeing all the regulars without makeup but still portraying similar-in-spirit characters was really neat. And as usual the show was extremely well written, produced, and acted (with possible exception to Avery Brooks magnum opus performance at the end "IT'S REEEEAL". I liked it cause I like over-the-top).
Despite Sisko being widely touted in the press as Star Trek's "first black captain" (before the second first black captain dropped in Discovery), the character's race was never mentioned previously on the show, nor did the show feature any plot lines or stories that could be construed as relating to contemporary racial politics (minor xenophobia towards aliens portrayed as literal space nazis was about as far as it went).
Because of that the "commentary" contained in the episode was pretty much "racism happened in the 50s, and it was bad). No allusion or allegory whatsoever to any present tense issue. Really the only reason the episode was made is because Avery Brooks wanted to make it (and direct it).
Of course nowadays with NuTrek it's even worse as contemporary woke politics is inserted for similarly zero reasons with regard to plot, but also with the assumption that those politics still exist in the exact same way 400 or 1000 years from now. And instead of being shoehorned into one or two episodes they are endemic. And the writing and acting suck.