“Granted, it didn’t do it through a gritty serialized tale closely paralleling its times, as is the current fashion”
This is still nothing new for Trek. S3 of Enterprise was largely in response to 9/11. And so many other examples you all. Have brought up.I think Mister44 has some rose colored memories of what Trek has done.
Perhaps making the federation ‘racist and nonidealists’ is hammering home the point that humanity hasn’t learned that lesson enough. Stewart himself has said the story of this show and our own turbulent times are the exact reason he came back.
