Does Modern Star Trek Media Uphold Gene Roddenberry’s Vision?
2022 marks the year the Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry would have turned 101, and though 30 years have passed since his death, it’s fair to say the legacy he created for himself is thriving. Creators have not only added to his work over the last 50 years, but his franchise has cemented itself as one of the pillars of science fiction storytelling. While he is considered the father of the utopian future, he was not always happy with the way his vision changed over the years, taking issue with various elements of The Next Generation. Thus the question arises: how does modern Star Trek live up to Roddenberry’s vision?
What is most interesting about this question is that it’s not looking into whether he would have liked the new shows, as the answer would most likely have been no. Before his passing in 1992, Roddenberry had already become disillusioned with what producers and writers were doing with the TNG, culminating in the episode “family” from season 4. The episode focuses on the crew of the Enterprise trying to get back to some sense of normality after their fight with the (back then still scary) Borg and the assimilation, and subsequent de-assimilation, of Captain Picard. Roddenberry apparently hated the episode, supposedly for not being “24th century” enough.
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When Roddenberry first created Star Trek, it was with the intention of showing a utopian vision of the future, one where all the so-called “evils” of modern society had been eradicated. He created the Federation, and a world that ran based on principles and self development rather than money, but more importantly one where the issues surrounding ableism, discrimination, and racism were all but irradiated. People of
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