Star Trek

I thought this was an interesting (and funny) way to think about it. And this guy seems to have made a bunch of costumes out of table cloths, which is actually pretty resourceful.

But two things stick out to me about this viewpoint. He doesn’t compare Star Trek to Star Wars, he compared Trek to what is shown in Andor specifically. But there’s no appreciable difference between the Empire shown in Andor and the Empire in all other Star Wars media. It’s written so much more maturely, but nothing notable changed.

The other thing is how he managed to wear a Monster Maroon uniform without mentioning the corruption and hypocrisy within Starfleet on full display in The Undiscovered Country. Gene Roddenberry famously hated that movie, but it proves that utopia doesn’t just happen. You have to keep protecting it (from without and within).

The way Starfleet is portrayed is what changes radically from generation to generation. And lately, not for the better. Another whiff is failing to mention The Orville, which is also a “trying our best” utopia with a visible human layer to it that addresses a lot of the shortcomings of the TNG-era portrayal.