Star Treks once positive and inspiring future is doomed to a bleak and dystopian intergalactic ‘mad max’ like post apocalyptical generic science fiction series future, Discovery season 4 has shown this. Star Trek: Picard has shown this to some extent too in the late 24th/early 25th century so maybe it was a shared intergalactic civilisational downwards spiral after humanity in particular peaked in the 24th century. We can always make a better now, and should always strive to do so regardless of what we think is coming tomorrow… we need to make the most of every day even if we know or *think* that the future may not be so bright. But when the future is seemingly written in such a bleak way as in Star Trek: Discovery, it can make people think “why even bother”? We can’t even get the writers to fix the unnatural destruction of the Romulan sun and the intergalactic doom that event caused, so I doubt that they will ever undo the burn, but why should they do so anyway? It is their show and imagination and if they want to write a depressing Star Trek dystopian future it is for them to do so. I enjoy all Star Trek, but with all due respect someone has really messed up its positive, inspiring and progressive vision in recent years, IMHO. Prodigy and Strange New Worlds are beginning to break this mold though, and hopefully Picard season 3 will too. Star Trek is not generic sci-if or fantasy or a gritty urban drama and should not be written as such, something has always made Star Trek standout from other sci-fi and I think that this has been ‘lost’ for a while. Something seems to be changing though, but what’s the point as Discovery said it is all going to ‘burn’.
