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i saw it as the latter considering how badly that era of star trek bungled social justice themes like lgbt rights.
the attempt to turn star trek into a character driven drama with discovery has plenty of flaws, but i accept them in the spirit of trek like i do the sexist flaws in tos and the lgbt-averse flaws in tng, voyager & enterprise.
strange new worlds feels like a half step backwards in both respects because of that lack of representation and it's more glaring now that we have fascism in control of our country. to be fair: i suppose an argument could be made that it's needed considering that both liberal & conservative trekkies alike popularly decry leftism in star trek and its fandom despite star trek's clearly leftist premise and settings; but i still accept strange new worlds in that same spirit.
i'm crossing my fingers in the hope that strange new worlds doesn't end up bowing down to popular pressures in the same way that berman's star trek did in this respect and i hope that the abrams movies continue the stellar (double entendre intended) representation going forward.