Star Trek Writer Hits Back At Controversial Fox News Op-Ed
Robert Hewitt Wolfe, a former Star Trek writer, hits back at a Fox News op-ed that claims the long-running sci-fi franchise has fallen victim to so-called "woke politics." Wolfe began his writing career by selling the story «A Fistful of Datas» to Star Trek: The Next Generation, which became a standout for its comedic elements and witty writing. This landed him a job on the creative staff of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, where he worked for five years and wrote some of the show’s most widely acclaimed episodes, including «Hard Time» and «Call to Arms.»
While Star Trek has been back in the news for many reasons, including the recent Star Trek: Strange New Worlds premiere, not all press has been celebratory. In a now viral opinion piece for Fox News, David Marcus points to two recent episodes as examples of Star Trek entering the world of partisan — and therefore "woke" - politics, including Strange New Worlds episode 1,which alluded to a third World War that a result of the Capitol Riots on January 6, 2021. According to Marcus, this was nothing more than a dig at the Trump administration, and constituted the long-running franchise breaking new ground in its political messaging.
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Wolfe takes issue with the article, but expresses his thoughts in a much more succinct way. Replying on Twitter, he cites his experience as an actual Star Trek writer as giving him the authority to call out Marcus as a "moron," and invites both Fox News and other outlets to quote him. In a separate tweet, Wolfe then replies with a gif of Rom saying “workers of the world, unite” from his own DS9episode, «Bar Association,» as small piece of evidence that Star Trek is no
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