Hardly any big film or TV franchise seems safe from the scourge of hard left social engineering. Activists appear to have taken over Hollywood and the entertainment industry, dictating that DEI must now be ingrained in any project lest it be barred from awards consideration. How ironic that the biggest loudmouth adherents of this poison cry 'fascism' in their persistent verbal assaults on the Trump administration. Yes, Mark Ruffalo and comrades, if woke messenging is now mandatory viewing for punters who simply long to be entertained - then you are not quite the freedom loving liberals you appear to present yourselves as. Quite the opposite.
With the woke destruction of beloved long-running sci-fi staples as Doctor Who and Star Wars, it is no great surprise to see Star Trek also being dragged into the gutter and along the same path of debauched demise. The latest series - Star Trek: Starfleet Academy - has dialled up the woke to eleven, epitomised by a Klingon character who is biologically male, but wears a skirt or a dress in multiple scenes and forms a relationship with a male human character. The show is led by a female captain played by Holly Hunter, whose behaviour would certainly raise the eyebrows of past captains such as Kirk and Picard. The diverse cast includes gays, lesbians and not content with a multi-racial array of actors, some of the characters themselves are 'mixed race' ie. half Klingon- half Tellarite, half human-half Lanthanite and so on.
As with previous propaganda pieces such as Star Wars: The Acolyte and various Marvel Studios tv shows, the critics lapped up the slop. However, the people who have actually invested in these franchises for the best part of a life time - the fans - have reacted somewhat differently.
Unsurprisingly, Starfleet Academy was dead on arrival. A second series had been filmed back-to-back with the first, but it will be the last to air. Once again, the lofty views of woke critics cannot save a production from cancellation - it's bums on seats and financial returns that maintain franchises. This repeated cycle of woke and broke really is the epitome of idiocy - doing the same thing over and over again, in the hope of a different result, but failing every single time.
When will the people who own these studios revert back to entertaining their audience, instead of indoctrinating them and/or ripping into them when they voice their disapproval? How much more money can these studios afford to lose?
The last Woke Wednesday - Christmas free trees in Tesco - generated 24 comments and 19 shares on Facebook.
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