Wow, some of the nerds out there are gunning for i09. I oscillate between liking the show and it making me mad, and I may not have become as disillusioned with it as Katharine, but hell, complaining about the newest Star Trek is about the most Trekker thing I can imagine!

Maybe all that Klingon hair throughout the years was a mass delusion? Like how they always talk english? Do they ever explicitly acknowledge “hair” or whatnot? Ugh I dunno.

That’s just hurtful

Firefly also has a captain who was on the losing side of a civil war... I bet those asshats will tell ya that the browncoats supported slavery...

TNG may miss that key reality, but Trek encompasses a lot. Hell, by the end of the series the Maquis is already raising your exact issue. Arguably DS9 keys into the grey a little bit more while preserving the “grand dream”

I think Jordan Hoffman detailed the best way to do it in his recen “zero” episode of the Engage podcast. Do a first season (set in the prime universe presumably) as a completely standalone season with no overt or complicated callbacks. With the 2nd season when you have people locked in, then you trot out Checkov or…

It’s almost as if questions such as this are partly the guy wrote a book about it...

Having read some of the book, he points out that the utopion “Trekonomics” he’s interested in really don’t show up fully until ST IV: The Voyage Home, when Kirk mentions how they don’t have money in the future

Feels a little like a hitjob, but I’ll agree that Roddenberry’s importance is overrated. Still, I argue the best Star Trek come from adjusting and pushing against the limitations he put in place.