This new iteration would be boldly going where no Captain Kirk portrayal has gone before.
Last month, CBS announced a brand new Star Trek series, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. The series is set as a sequel to Star Trek: Discovery and a prequel to Star Trek: The Original Series.
In a video announcement, it was confirmed that Ethan Peck, Anson Mount and Rebecca Romijn would be reprising their roles as Spock, Pike and Number One respectively.
And in a tweet, show insider Daniel Richtman, said: “Heard they are toying with the idea of making Kirk bi in the new series.”
They just can’t leave anything alone, can they? The amount of gay/bi people is small. Very small, yet they seem to want to ram it down our throats at every opportunity – even to the point of rewriting iconic characters. Sulu became openly gay and now Kirk may become bisexual.
Given that I’ve pretty much given up on Star Trek and Star Wars since the tendency to make them woke started, I suppose I’ll lose nothing by this. I can always watch reruns of the original series and simply ignore the new, woke iterations. Which, I suspect, a lot of the fan base will do.
Much as I will no longer watch Dr Who or James Bond as we were discussing the other day. Until all our heroes become one legged, black lesbian drag kings, they won’t stop.
What sad obsessions to be wasting your life on. At least you can be glad that you aren’t them.
Yes, I fear that one really just has to turn one’s back on popular culture and walk away now. It has fallen into the hands of those that care absolutely nothing for it, and just want to use it as a vehicle for their ‘right think’ propaganda.
On a more positive note, though, very much against my better judgement, I was suckered into seeing the recent Terminator film ‘Dark Fate’ last year. I dearly love the first two films in the series, but thereafter they become almost unwatchably bad. Even compared to those latter entries in the series, though, Dark Fate was a multiple car pile-up of a clusterfuck. A retired Terminator running an interior decor business? I mean, it was like it came with its own in-built Robot Chicken spoof. What was heartening, though, what that when looking subsequently at the comments under the reviews on YouTube, there were so many that were variations of “I’m 17 and I watched T2 with my dad and it was awesome. Dark Fate is shit though” that one has tangible proof that even the young are not fooled by this crap. Hence why so many of these Woke Hollywood sermons are absolutely tanking at the box office.
For some excellent and amusing vitriol about them, look up The Critical Drinker on YouTube when you have a moment.
Yes, I do watch his channel. Are you surprised?
Surprise coefficient: -0.9978.
Just subscribed , thank you.
“Zero fucks given per metre, cubed Captain”
Star Trek et al died long ago now SJW foolishness dances in its skin…
Just one more reason to turn off the clown box.
I always thought Picard had a bit of a thing for Wil Wheaton (Next Generation), strangely svelte in his clingy tunic.
Thnk goodness there is more great stuff from the past than you could ever have time to watch. Even the mediocre stuff at least isn’t full of contempt and crudely trying to re-educate me.
I now assume that anything new in culture, popular or otherwise, is a waste of my remaining years.
As a life long Trekkie, I binned Star Trek after the first reboot. It was more for continuity reasons than woke ones, but I hear it’s been getting much worse with each new incarnation. I’m happy to watch the classic stuff, but since that new film came out, I haven’t bothered with it.
In my younger years, it would have been a dream to know there was loads of Star Trek out there that I hadn’t watched yet, but now I’m there, I know it’s all pants