Ursula Le Guin on Star Trek: TNG (1994)
These two snippets stood out for me:<p>"Violence, on The Next Generation, is shown as a problem, or the failure to solve a problem, never as the true solution."<p>"Lots of young people watch it, too, of course, and, recently, at a conference about science fiction, one of them told me why: “A lot of science fiction shows us a future just like now, only worse,” she said. “I like The Next Generation because it shows us a future I could live in.” "<p>Compare the old shows, TNG & DS9 with the new shows - Discovery and Picard.<p>Alan Kurtzman and team have completely destroyed the spirit of Star Trek - totally ignored what Roddenberry tried to achieve - which is nicely encapsulated in the two snippets above.<p>Instead Kurtzman & team created something bland, superficial with no depth by desperately and selfishly imprinting their own mark on the Star Trek world without respecting its history. Even the great actors like Stewart, Spiner or De Lancie couldn't save it.<p>----<p>PS. This is a good summary of the new Trek:<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaK7jGyY4Wo" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaK7jGyY4Wo</a><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BiyH8lENRs" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BiyH8lENRs</a>