By Joshua Tyler
| Revealed 1 hour in the past
Everybody’s speaking about Star Trek once more. Sadly, they’re speaking about it within the context of the franchise being useless.
In case you’re seeking to lay blame for its demise on somebody, you need to most likely put it on Alex Kurtzman. He’s been in control of the franchise since 2009’s Star Trek. He’s additionally the producer of Paramount+’s newly launched Star Trek: Part 31, a straight-to-streaming film so unhealthy that 58% of Star Trek followers who responded to our ballot voted to demand that Paramount delete the movie from the web.
So what occurred? What does Alex Kurtzman need to say for himself? His response, in a nutshell, is that this: Star Trek is a secure area, so it’s okay to make a horrible film.
Is my summation an exaggeration? Right here’s the precise quote from his interview with TrekMovie, by which they requested him what he would say to followers nervous about Part 31.
“I believe you you have a tendency to search out Star Trek since you really feel someway such as you don’t slot in, proper? And Star Trek turns into a secure place that tells you it’s okay to be totally different. It’s okay to be a misfit. And this can be a film about misfits, proper?”
Following that horrific quote, he launched right into a rambling phrase salad about “defending our freedom,” after which, he sunk even decrease. He tried to argue that the easiest way to guard Gene Roddenberry’s dream of a vivid future is to make films about horrible individuals doing horrible issues.
Right here’s Kurtzman:
“So finally, I really feel like what we’re saying is that to ensure that Starfleet and that stunning imaginative and prescient that Roddenberry had of this optimistic utopia, to ensure that that imaginative and prescient to exist, to ensure that the sunshine to exist, you want individuals who function within the shadows. And it’s a yin and yang. You possibly can’t have one with out the opposite.”
In Alex Kurtzman’s head, there is no such thing as a such factor as a vivid and completely happy future for humanity as a result of you possibly can solely have one if it’s balanced out by one thing terrible. In Alex Kurtzman’s Star Trek, Gene Roddenberry’s dream can not exist.
He then went on to attempt to paper over his failures by wrapping himself in LGBTQ+ iconography, saying of his horrible film, “And in that approach, I believe it’s simply one other shade within the rainbow of Star Trek.”
In my 0-star evaluate of Star Trek: Part 31, I requested whether or not it was potential for a movie to be basically evil. Now Star Trek followers have a solution. In case you’re searching for evil, look no additional than Alex Kurtzman.
