‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ is an abomination and an insult to the original series and to true Star Trek fans. All appearances were, that Alex Kurtzman, the curator of all things bad in new Trek, was going to give fans what they wanted with ‘Strange New Worlds’. We were going to get something akin to classic Star Trek, that would be devoid of the political ideologies and “wokism” that Kurtzman has poisoned Star Trek with over the last 5 years. But alas, we would be wrong. Kurtzman, on his quest to destroy the canon of the original Star Trek, makes no exception with ‘Strange New Worlds’, and makes a mockery of an absolute legendary TV show. How the failures of everything Kurtzman touches are allowed to continue is confounding and frustrating. Alex Kurtzman does not have one successful Star Trek series under his belt, yet he’s allowed to continually desecrate Star Trek with new show after new show, and ‘Strange New Worlds’ is no different.
Spock is Weak and Has Emotions?
In the premiere episode of ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’, we are subjected to many abhorrent iterations of the original series, of which there are too many to list in just one article. But among some of the most egregious, are Spock’s flirtation with T’Pring at a restaurant on Vulcan, in which T’Pring asks Spock’s hand in marriage, a moment where they both publicly kiss, and then go off to have arbitrary sex. Way to go for women empowerment on a planet ruled by logic and devoid of emotion. First of all, Vulcans never show their emotions, never have arbitrary sex, and most certainly never kiss in public, and are a private race, and second, T’Pring and Spock had an arranged marriage since they were kids. But of course in Kutzman’s Trek, to hell with canon…have at it Vulcans…and arranged marriages? Out with them…they are wildly uncalled for in the current political environment of unacceptable. Is it so hard for Kurtzman to comprehend that there might be arranged marriages among alien races in other parts of the universe…in a fictional science fiction story? There’s also a new character named La’an Noonien Singh, who is the granddaughter of Kahn Noonien Singh(of TOS and Wrath of Khan fame), who is apparently more tolerant of pain than the emotionless Spock is(though TOS history would prove otherwise), but that’s because she’s a woman, and in Kurtzman Trek, men are weak and women are the bestest evar! Spock now has a sister, and the alien race of the Gorn apparently didn’t make their first appearance in TOS episode ‘Arena’, but rather years before with La’an Noonien Singh. Oh, and then there’s Captain Robert April, who has been race swapped for a black man. Kurtzman had to make sure he virtue signaled as well.
Strange New Worlds is Continuing Kurtzman’s Dismantling of TOS Canon
The discrepancies to original canon are a plenty, but one of the most blatant, is the reference to the January sixth riots in a speech by Captain Christopher Pike, and the insinuation that they were the catalyst for World War III. There’s even pictures. Why on earth would Kurtzman put something in an episode so inflammatory and divisive, painting the finger of wrong doing at one half of the country? There’s absolutely no reference to the November 2020 elections, Joe Biden, or election integrity, anywhere in the Star Trek universe, yet now in Kurtzman’s Star Trek, it exists. It’s purposeful, and it’s derogatory. ‘Strange New Worlds’ is continuing what Kurtzman has been doing to Star Trek for years. Kurtzman has been systematically destroying Star Trek Canon ever since he helped introduce the kelvin timeline in the rebooted Star Trek movie from 2009. In the rebooted movies, Kurtzman helped introduce an emotional Spock, flipped the script in a God awful revamping of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, in which we see a Captain Kirk die instead of Spock, and gave us a gay Sulu. It has continued with ‘Discovery’ and ‘Picard’, with Spock having an adopted human sister(the Captain of the Discovery), site to site transporting, mutiny on a Starship(never once recorded according to TOS canon), Holodecks, Data of STNG being alive and having a daughter, and Seven of Nine, from the Voyager series, is now gay. There’s more continuity discrepancies in all of these series, but you get the point. It’s almost as if Alex Kurtzman never watched an episode of TOS or TNG.
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Kurtzman is Blatant in His Political Ideologies
T’Pring and Spock’s incongruous relations in this first episode of ‘Strange New Worlds’, or the now canonical January 6th riots in a Star Trek universe, are perfect examples of how Alex Kurtzman doesn’t understand the fans or what Star Trek ever stood for. That is why Kurtzman doesn’t get Star Trek, and apparently never will. Or maybe he does, but it doesn’t fit his political narrative, so he must manipulate it and destroy it to fit his image. The January sixth riots at the capitol, are an example of how Alex Kurtzman is telling the audience his personal view of a political situation, and a perfect example of why Kurtzman’s Trek is failing so horribly with the fans. There is even a petition from fans of Star Trek to make Kurtzman’s Trek de-canonized. Kurtzman is so blatant about his politics, that he had Stacey Abrams, an activist leftwing radical politician, who has yet to concede that she lost her election bid for the Georgia governorship, in an episode of ‘Star Trek: Discovery’, in which she was president of the Federation. Kurtzman is using his Star Trek as a platform to preach his biased personal politics, and the fans are tuning out.
Alex Kurtzman’s Trek is Boring, Dark, and Lacking in Originality
It is, in my opinion, Alex Kurtzman’s goal to destroy what was once wonderful and exciting about Star Trek. TOS, and even STNG, solidified Gene
Roddenberry’s vision of a world in which people, despite their differences in looks, manners, actions, and locations, all could get to the goal of disagreeing, debating, and coming to a conclusion, peacefully, that benefitted all. The original Star Trek, for example, dealt with modern day issues, by interjecting them covertly into an episode. One of the most famous of these, was the episode, ‘Plato’s Stepchildren’, in which we saw a controlled Uhura and Kirk kiss on screen. TV’s first interracial kiss was considered taboo for the time, but is a great example of how Gene Roddenberry intertwined, very effectively, political issues that were prevalent, without having to propagandize them as the first this and the first that. Fast forward to Alex Kurtzman’s Star Trek, and we have Star Trek Discovery, Star Trek Picard, and now Star Trek Strange New Worlds, in which it’s nothing but dystopia, violence, bigotry, and week after week of in your face of preachy politics, that tell us how we need to be better, that white males suck, and women are the end all be all solution to everything that comes their way. It’s boring, repetitive, lacking in passion and originality, and most of all lacking in hope…which Gene Roddenberry gave us week after week with TOS.
Alex Kurtzman is the Anti-Christ to Star Trek
Kurtzman Trek is a vehicle for his absolute ignorance and disdain for what made Star Trek great. Alex Kurtzman has overtly displayed his ideological politics front and center, that is the antithesis to how Gene Roddenberry would have approached todays politics of diversity and inclusion. In other words, Roddenberry would never overtly make the politics of representation his writing focus…it would just be. Whereas Alex Kurtzman proudly displays his diversity and inclusion like trophies in episode after episode of anyone of his Trek shows. Kurtzman’s disrespect for Gene Roddenberry’s vision of Star Trek is so apparent, that in episode 2 of season 3, a janitor named ‘Gene’, is dismissed as irrelevant as he is shoveling dead body parts. Whether that was intentional or not, it was still a callous disregard for the creator of one of the most iconic TV shows of our time. Kurtzman’s ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ will be no different, with an emotional disheveled Spock, a boring Captain Pike, and a rumored to be bi-sexual James Kirk. ‘Strange New Worlds’ isn’t a return to TOS in the slightest, and is Alex Kurtzman’s way of baiting and switching us into watching something that is blasphemous to the original Star Trek and Gene Roddenberry’s original vision. Alex Kurtzman is the Anti-Christ to Star Trek.
