I just don't get it. What is the freaking problem of those directors, trying to rewrite federation into some kind of dystopian tech fascism?
I was annoyed by the first Star Trek movie by JJ Abrams, with those police cops. I was alienated by those anti-android resentments in Picard. I stopped watching Discovery after the first episode, because the main protagonist was sent to some kind of labor prison for disobedience, where prisoners regularly die. I didn't think it could get any worse but just watching the first 10 minutes of Starfleet Academy makes me want to bury the whole franchise [edit: and stopped watching]. Some drumhead court-martial, lifelong prison sentence, violently separating a mother from her child and some goons beating up a prisoner. How in the hell is this the same federation of TNG, Voyager and DS9?
Star Trek is supposed to be the ONE fiction with a positive, utopian view on mankind and the future. I totally get the attraction of dystopian settings but for that I can read some Warhammer 40k novels. This really makes me furious.
Fortunately there is still Strange New Worlds.
Please spoiler me, when this bullshit in Starfleet Academy gets turned around in some twist, because otherwise I will just ignore the show.
This right here. The only way you can end up with OP's opinion after watching the first episode is when you don't pay attention at all.
Honestly, all of the new bucket of frequently parroted opinions only make sense if you don't pay attention. I saw one recently calling SFA "edgy teenage drama with bullying". "Edgy" is the furthest thing from what SFA is. It's the biggest let's-work-together-and-support-our-friends piece of media I might have ever seen. It's comfort food.
I have to assume these people go straight from the ragebait youtubers to reddit/lemmy comments without ever stopping to watch the show.
EDIT: omg there's literally someone in this thread calling it "dark and edgy".
Quite on point. Since I stopped watching after those 10 minutes.
Do you not understand how dramatic storytelling works? Did you stop reading To Kill a Mockingbird because it’s racist to have an innocent black man accused of murder?