TV: Star Trek returning to TV

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Blender

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I'm sure that it will still be. Star Trek isn't a utopia where prejudice doesn't exist. It's just a future in which we've stopped being prejudiced towards one another (i.e. other humans), but aliens are still fair game. For example, Worf had an uncomfortable upbringing because he was Klingon and wasn't trusted by some as a Starfleet officer. That's why Star Trek works as allegory. If it really had none of the issues of modern society, it wouldn't be relevant or interesting. Maybe that's why we're rarely shown what life is like on Earth. By most impressions, that's pretty idyllic... and boring. All of the tension and conflict is out beyond the Solar System, where the series and movies take place.

A number of DS9 episodes specifically touched on this subject, that Earth has truly become an idyllic utopia and that this fact sometimes blinds Starfleet and the Federation to the realities elsewhere in the galaxy. Homefront/Paradise Lost, Past Tense, For the Cause, The Maquis, and a common theme of Bajor rebuilding throughout the series.

This has always been the strength of Star Trek, this dual depiction where Earth/humanity (and the Federation in general) has evolved to a pretty utopian and egalitarian society, but a large part of the galaxy still isn't like this and humans still aren't immune to prejudices for aliens. It allows the series to both depict an ideal we should strive for, while also being able to tell stories that are relevant to our modern society.
 
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