I get that people have the best of intentions when they try to argue that Star Trek isn't a dead franchise, but... this is a series that once had a member of a resistance group inspired by real life Palestinian resistance as a sympathetic main character. And now it's apolitical CGIslop owned by a corporation that runs a blacklist of any actor who's ever spoken in support of Palestine.
wsws.org/en/articles/2025/11/0…
Ellison-owned Paramount launches McCarthyite blacklist of actors opposed to Gaza genocide
A civil war is raging in the film, television and music fields between artists opposed to the mass murder in Gaza, as well as Trump’s fascist policies, and the upper echelons of studio executives and owners.World Socialist Web Site
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in reply to FKFTSH • • •I don't think that has anything to do with its death. Quite the opposite, I'd say.
It's dead because people didn't watch it anymore, so it cost too much for too little audience.
It was far too political, in the vapid, culture war of today sense. Maybe not in the political questions throughout human history sense. "Can men wear skirts?" instead of "How do we reconcile democracy vs human nature to harm?" sense.
Both political, but on very different levels.
And people just didn't care about men wearing skirts. That drama is a dime a dozen, so why tune in here?
Hopefully they can take a break and fix the franchise.
Aral Balkan
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