By Chris Snellgrove
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Critical consensus is in: Article 31Star Trek’s most recent film is officially the worst in the franchise. We are now to the point where many fans try to understand what is wrong, but it is not difficult to understand who to blame. In fact, the chief culprit accidentally admitted what happened in a recent interview. Alex Kurtzman recently told Trek Movie that Article 31 was done by assuming that the futuristic utopia of Gene Roddenberry could only be created with the help of secret agents defending it behind the scenes.
Alex Kurtzman does not understand
During the interview, Alex Kurtzman did not chop words concerning the creative thesis of Article 31. “What we say is that for Starfleet and this beautiful vision that Roddenberry had of this optimistic utopia … to exist,” he said, “you need people who operate in the shadows. .. You cannot have one without the other. “Frankly, these words coming from the main creative force behind Nutrek explain why this recent film was such a flop and why the franchise fell so far from the heights that it appreciated formerly.
While Alex Kurtzman discussed the ethics of Article 31He noted how Trek has always provided allegories to the real world and that the recent film was made in part to answer questions such as “who must we be to protect our freedoms?” And, “What should be done to protect our freedoms?” It seemed delighted that the new film would help to explore where the so-called “gray zone” is located but accidentally revealed the depths of its stupidity because these questions have been asked and responds infinitely better in Ronald D. Moore’s Battlestar Galactica.
Battlestar Galactica did it
Everyone except the youngest of Americans Star Trek Fans know that we have already had all this debate on security against freedom following terrorist attacks on September 11. There were many whips at the time on what we were willing to do to preserve the soul of the nation, and the answer was darkly simple. We leave the government we spy on, let the soldiers invade the bad country (twice!), And we let our eyes look at taxpayers funding torture (oh, excuse me, “improved interrogation”) of anyone throws a President throws indefinitely without trial in our practical offshore prison.
Long before Alex Kurtzman decided to torment the Star Trek fans with the Article 31 Film, anyone with half an intelligence and empathy had already understood that the correct answer to an insane attack was not Constantly attacking the others and that the soul of a nation cannot really represent much if it is maintained alive by invasion, torture and murder. One of these people was Ronald Moore, whose Battlestar Galactica The restart had many parallels with the Hysteria post-September 11 American while our heroes dealt with the close genocide of their entire race in the hands of robotic cylons.
The show has constantly used its own science fiction Allegories to explore crunchy concepts to know if it is even worth preserving humanity if those who remain become as cold and bloodthirsty as their potential butchers. We have seen our characters fight with morality and the consequences of actions such as the torture of enemy agents in the name of the greatest good. And even if it was rarely subtle, GalacticaThe showrunner has always indicated that it was terrible Things that compromised the souls of all those who participated, destroying the very things that these characters have set up to preserve.
This is the problem with Alex Kurtzman Article 31: It operates back from the hypothesis that the Federation deserves to be preserved at all costs, which is why we end up with a film where we are supposed to root the Hitler and Son Goon Squad space. In Kurtzman’s mind, all that they and the rest of article 31 are justified because it preserves this idealized utopia. Unfortunately, he does not have wisdom to reach the more sensible conclusion of Ronald Moore: that utopia is not really utopia if it is kept alive by an organization of the amoral shadow which embodies the opposite From all that our heroes are supposed to represent.
There are many other problems with Alex Kurtzman in general and Article 31 in particular, but it is fascinating (to borrow a term Spock) that he accidentally admitted the biggest problem of all. Nutrek is not Star Trek because he has gone all on concepts that work completely Contrary to the dreams of Gene Roddenberry. What if people who direct Star Trek cannot keep their souls alive, how can they expect what we keep this rotten franchise in life?
Source: Hiking film
