Star Trek: The Rebooted Movie Series Has One Fatal Flaw
Some reboots fail because they're shameless cash-ins that only use the marketable name, others fail because the work doesn't fit into the new era. Some particularly fascinating attempts, however, fall apart simply because either the creators or the studios have fundamentally misunderstood the source material.
The original Star Trek films have their ups and downs, as did the numerous seasons and spin-offs on TV, but they all at least attempt to recapture the spirit of the original series. Something happened around the late 2000s that caused the Star Trek franchise to change in a way that most fans seem to hate, and most newcomers didn't respond to.
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The original Star Trek franchise may be history's most popular example of utopian fiction. The crew of the USS Enterprise toured the universe, solved problems, and even participated in combat, but the series' ultimate message was one of peaceful coexistence. Star Trek's Earth is one where war has been rendered obsolete, futuristic technology has completely solved inequality and all of humanity has come together in pursuit of a noble goal. This was just as powerful a notion at the time of its release as it is today, in the face of a human race racked with war, poverty, and division. Star Trek is about a coalition of humans seeking to do good across the galaxy. It's intelligent, empathetic, adventurous, but above all else, optimistic.
Series creator Gene Roddenberry was a dedicated and award-winning humanist, a philosophy concerned with the inherent agency of the species and its responsibility to the world around it. In many ways, Star Trek is a humanist view of an ideal future, which is a type of story that the world doesn't
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