Star Trek Writer Comments On The State Of The Franchise After 'Section 31' Fail
"Star Trek: Section 31" Made Me Assess Just How Badly Star Trek Is Being Handled On Paramount Plus
The philosophers say it’s good for your soul, so here’s something of a creative confessional for your perusal and hopeful approval. As with everything in life, timing is everything. The first Star Trek movie produced for streaming or television has dropped. Section 31 made me evaluate the current state of the sci-fi franchise.
I wrote for Star Trek: The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine, then pitched in Hollywood to DS9 and Voyager. I wrote a book on the original series starring William Shatner as Captain Kirk, Deforest Kelly as Dr. McCoy and Leonard Nimoy as Spock. As a child, only four years old, I vividly recall my earliest memories of watching my first original ST episode on television, The Squire Of Gothos.
Honestly, I never dreamed I'd be so completely shocked over or dislike Trek as much as I do now.
Creator Gene Roddenberry's 'Wagon Train To The Stars' is now officially lost in space. Now on streamer Paramount Plus, especially after Section 31, Trek has morphed into a weird, twisted shadow of what it once was; an awe inspiring, cosmic spanning vision of what our future exploration of the human condition can be. A terribly sad fact is both the Trekker fanbase along with professional critics unite in agreement: Star Trek Has Lost Its Way.
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