Do you think modern day issue's will be addressed on "Discovery?"

[Jayson1]

Say what you will about the world today, one thing you can't say is that it doesn't offer up alot of potential drama for a show like "Star Trek" that is supose to address issue's. Everything from Trump to refuge's can be dealt with. In fact I wonder of the Issac's character might actually be a stand in for Donald Trump or at least the Admiral character that is supose to be on the show.

Jason

 

[Kemaiku]

Star Trek usually does find a way to do that, so they will. Just through some form of analogy, though we might be waiting until season two for that since one is locked down now.

 

[Bones]

I fully expect today's issues will be explored in Discovery. That is part of Trek's history and I would be disappointed if that aspect didn't continue.

 

[Jayson1]

I think that they will address issue's but I think the big difference is that they actually will able to go further than trek has done before and be able to be even more frank with what they are saying since you don't have to hide that stuff as much on modern tv. It could be a lot like what you see on "Supergirl" only from a more adult perspective were "Supergirl" is more from a millinenial's perspective.

Jason

 

[RAMA]

Yes, Chief among them will be why Drumpf uses ketchup on his steak.

RAMA

 

[F. King Daniel]

It'll be about Space Trump and Space Putin

 

[CorporalClegg]

"I know business. I know risk. I make the best deals. Take lots of risks. And we're not talking about board games here, people. All the risks.

And I can draw all the lines. Near lines. Far lines. Big lines. Small lines. On Cat. In a hat. Around a moat and in a boat. The lines must be drawn. Here. There. Everywhere, people."

 

[Awesome Possum]

"We're going to build a wall in space, and the Klingons will pay for it!"

 

[galad2003]

How about an episode where the Discovery crew go to an alien planet which has different beliefs from them and the Discovery crew all get triggered and need to go to a safe space.

 

[Awesome Possum]

How about an episode where the Discovery crew go to an alien planet which has different beliefs from them and the Discovery crew all get triggered and need to go to a safe space.

The twist is that the aliens' beliefs are so sensitive that they pass laws to keep Starfleet away.

 

[Tenacity]

though we might be waiting until season two for that since one is locked down now

Why couldn't some current events be written into the first season?

"We're going to build a wall in space, and the Klingons will pay for it!"

Maybe stories about some people in the Federation who want to open the Romulan neutral zone and the border with the Klingons.

and the Discovery crew all get triggered and need to go to a safe space

A visit to planet Snowflake.

 

[rahullak]

"We're going to repeal and replace the laws stating that replication should be free."

And that motion gets soundly defeated when Discovery desperately needed replication and Federation facilities refused to do it for free.

 

[Trekkin]

A visit to planet Snowflake.

And in a shocking twist, it turns out the character we assumed to be the hero and named the titular planet, is actually the split personality of an egocentric dweeb who's been driven half-insane by toxic masculinity.

A dweeb that, in turn, is revealed as the unknowing creation of a homosexual Creator using his playthings to mock the true evils of society. Not consumerism or any governing power, but simple knee-jerk idiots, with shoulder-chips about being held to higher standards than a wild animal.



Actually, that could be pretty good. Pity it's been done.

 

[AndorianAle]

How about mentioning rumours from Andoria of a new, fat, orange king, whose policies reversed hundreds of years of progress, taking the once proud, original Ferderation species to the brink of self destruction. Their stature amungst the most powerful species plummets to where we barely hear from them again by TNG. Sad!

 

[Trekkin]

Many Tribbles died for that Andorian's head rug. Combined with a lack of environmental protections, the species was driven to near extinction.

Only the Klingons were happy. Then the Tribble-Probe showed up...

 

[RAMA]

TREKMOVIE: What are your personal hopes for Star Trek: Discovery?

NICK MEYER: I hope it’s a success. That’s my first hope. I hope it perpetuates the Star Trek condition of helping people see themselves, making us able to contemplate dilemmas that otherwise we might be too close to judge without prejudice. I thought that was the series’ strength – by taking hot button issues, renaming them and setting them someplace else, that we could think about ourselves and how we want to be. I hope the new series contributes to that tradition, that would be a good thing.

 

[Space Coast]

How about mentioning rumours from Andoria of a new, fat, orange king, whose policies reversed hundreds of years of progress, taking the once proud, original Ferderation species to the brink of self destruction. Their stature amungst the most powerful species plummets to where we barely hear from them again by TNG. Sad!

I have a better idea: literally anything but that.

While Modest Proposal-levels of anviliciousness with satire are possible, it's rarely if ever done well and with most writers they end up sounding hamfisted and strawmannish. If Trek is going to satirize Trump (which I guarantee they will, because Trek is nothing if not liberal 90% of the time) I expect they'll make him a serious and actually interesting/intimidating threat, like Gul Dukat.

 

[AndorianAle]

 

[RAMA]

I have a better idea: literally anything but that.

While Modest Proposal-levels of anviliciousness with satire are possible, it's rarely if ever done well and with most writers they end up sounding hamfisted and strawmannish. If Trek is going to satirize Trump (which I guarantee they will, because Trek is nothing if not liberal 90% of the time) I expect they'll make him a serious and actually interesting/intimidating threat, like Gul Dukat.

I doubt there will be a single representation of Trump, but more of an amalgam of the mindset and stupidity in the tenets of his administration and criminal personalities contained therein.

 

[Mudd]

Trek very rarely does social issues well enough to be anything other than a minor embarrassment.

TOS was able to sometimes do it well because American TV was so devoid of controversial material that allegorical treatment of issues demanded and came across as somewhat clever.

The Trek approach of "let's disguise this" just looks clumsy and cowardly in the current environment. Hell, even a superficial popcorn show like Supergirl just goes for it: the writers want to say that rounding up and deporting undocumented immigrants is evil, they do an episode where evil people round up and try to eject some aliens.