Nutrek / New Star Trek / 2009 - Present day - The most embarrassing production modern television has ever seen

[The Pulverizer]

The end of an era​

Star Trek: Enterprise's cancellation marked the end of a long-running television streak that started with TNG. There were several factors that led to this like the fact that Enterprise was on a single network instead of syndicated television, or the franchise's dwindling ratings, although they got a lot better after Season 3. A crucial issue a lot of people neglect are the changes within Paramount. Key figure, Jonathan Dolgen, who was the head of entertainment of Viacom (the parent company) left and others soon followed. Paramount's CEO at the time, Brad Gay, who hated Star Trek finally found himself with no opposition to boot the show off the air.

The beginning of the nightmare​

All is not yet lost as Paramount decides to to do a movie. The president of Paramount, whose last name is ironically Berman, contacts the people who wrote the hit films The Mummy (2017) and The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Oci, to work on the story for a prequel to TOS. Director, JJ Abrams was hired as well. All of these people self-admittedly have never seen Star Trek.


So they made the movie. They brought back Leonard Nimoy and gave him 3 lines. A few planets blew up and then young Uhura kissed young Spock. Then they did the first movie again but this time they called it "Into Darkness" and brought back Khan for no reason. It failed without ever breaking even with its budget. Star Trek Beyond was released 4 years later and it failed even harder than the previous sequel despite being a better movie. All plans for more nutrek movies have been in development hell ever since.

Star Trek's embarrassing return to television, STD!​

After the failure of the movies everyone was excited for that sweet new STD. Bryan Fuller used all his Trek knowledge and experience of working on DS9 and VOY to make the best story for the show. He was then kicked off the project for being too creative. STD was a failure of epic proportions. The first season got away with a lot of stupid stuff like the new look of the Klingons (which was later changed back) and allegedly stealing from an indie game, as well as the whole dumb plot of the Federation-Klingon war. This was due to the novelty of the show, and the fact that fans held onto hope that things would improve.

Things only got worse. The brilliant writers even stole from the Orville by making the show funnier because everyone complained about the first season being violent. If you really think about it, the second season was really the story that Alex Kurtzman wanted to tell. That story involves nonsense science fiction and stupid drama. Even the people that like nutrek tuned out of STD after the second season..

USS Nepotism​

So who's commanding this sinking starship? Alex Kurtzman and his crew of course! Akiva Goldsman serves as the executive dickhead, Heather Kaden is the Chief Retard, and hipster Michael Chabon gives the characters all the feels and butterfly tears.


For a brief moment nutrek actually achieved world peace. The entire planet Earth unanimously agreed that Star Trek Picard the worst piece of media ever conceived by man and a monument to how bad sloppy writing can get. Patrick Stewart only agreed to come back because he wanted to write the garbage with the other morons. On top of having the nonsense of STD, you have the egotistical ramblings of Patrick Stewart who wants to be the lead action man with a love interest despite being 109 years old. Meanwhile, the writers take the show way more seriously by using it to respond to some Twitter drama that involves the actor who played Icheb in Voyager.
The second season of Picard lowered the IQ of its viewers by 30-50 points each. The third season turned them into nutrek shills because it brought back things people know.

Lower Decks came out the same time as Picard. It's a complete ripoff of Rick & Morty that takes place in the Star Trek universe. The only interesting thing about Lower Decks is that the characters talk just like they do in their "serious" shows.

Meet Nutrek's "serious" show. It exists as a vessel to attract zoomers with quirky one-liners while also baiting older fans into watching. Every now and then they make sure to bring back something from TOS to attract everyone's attention. The show of course features all the landmarks of STD, but dwelling on them would be like beating the extinct humpback whales.

The nutrek audience​

The hot question going around is "Who does all this trash appeals to?" Well, Nutrek's audience consists of zoomers and milennials that were introduced to Star Trek only through STD. People that only care for the weekly diversity bait like a character wearing a hijab. Meanwhile, the old audience is pushed to the side and accused of being racist bigots by the cast and crew. They will prove their claims by utilizing Disney's strategy of complaining about racist fan mail that doesn't exist.

Exhibit A: Wil Wheaton​

The quintessential soyboy. He played Wesley Crusher in TNG, and now that he's reached middle age he cries about his parents being mean to him when he was 10. Someone had the brilliant idea to have him host the nutrek propaganda podcast, The Ready Room. Paramount had to take it off YouTube a year later because everyone was making fun of him. A playlist of all the episodes still exists on YouTube and all the episodes lead to 404 errors except for a couple of them. Wil Wheaton has yet to comment on this.

Exhibit B: Jesse Gender​

Jesse Gender is a valid trans woman who talks about things like politics, games, and Star Trek. What he does is overly sexualize every single aspect of Star Trek and gushes about how perfect Nutrek is. He also occasionally rants about conservatives and evil bigots. The reason this man is important is because he has connections to the people working on the shows (this playlist doesn't include some other interviews with lead actors in Nutrek shows).

 

[Londo]

Strange New Worlds is awesome and so is Lower Decks. Also it is surprising how conservative a lot of trek fans are -- almost paradoxically so.

 

[The Pulverizer]

I'm looking to add more exhibits. If you know any other embarrassing specimens like Jesse Gender that are affiliated with Nutrek in some fashion, then please let me know. In a subsequent edit I may add everyone's favorite, Wil Wheaton. A lot has happened with him since he was hired to host The Ready Room podcast.

 

[naaaaiiiiillllll!!!]

I like the attempt at an entertaining/creative OP, but it ironically suffers from the same issue Nick Rekieta’s OP and nuTrek itself does — style and sass over substance for the sake of snark. I can tell the author is angry and while there is good information sprinkled in, it’s more of a rant than a good starting point for understanding how uniquely “special” nuTrek is.

You mention “4 embarrassing horsemen”, but kind of talk about each TV show at the same time. We need at least individual sections for STD, Picard, Lower Decks, and Strange New Worlds (Picard alone can have several paragraphs going over it’s issues and how season 3 sort of retcon’d everything (or so I heard) but instead we get no meat). You say the nuTrek “movie” (there were 3 remember?) was a failure, but why did they make 3 of them (with a 4th maybe still going to happen)?

I 100% sympathize with OP and the motive behind this post, but it seriously needs revision to bring people up to speed with nuTrek and how god-awful it has been. Unfortunately, attempts to make offshoots of the Star Trek thread on Kiwifarms almost always lead to jannies deleting, so I fear this thread is not long for this world…

 

[Solomon Bundy]

Agreed with poster above. There's much more to add, such as STD being plagiarized from the indy game Tardigrades, or the character Icheb being brought back for a scene (recast) to be tortured because the actor tweeted Trump support. Nutrek has been a disaster that hit me hard around STID because I realized Trek's return was now a Pet Semetary scenario.

Fuck. STID had the same story about Peter Weller playing a Starfleet admiral trying to false flag a war with the Klingons as an episode of Enterprise. The same story with the same actor playing the same basic antagonist! They spent all that money and no one in production even noticed or cared. Good on Weller, though. Get that money.

 

[el bandito loco]

Indifferent to 09, thought into darkness sucked, I liked Star Trek Beyond. tried to watch the first season of Discovery. Thought it made no sense continuity wise and sucked in general. Dropped it. went back to try Picard when its first season ended, almost shot myself just to make it stop because I lost the remote a few episodes in. never looked back.

 

[JULAY]

We need at least individual sections for STD, Picard, Lower Decks, and Strange New Worlds (Picard alone can have several paragraphs going over it’s issues and how season 3 sort of retcon’d everything (or so I heard) but instead we get no meat).

Agreed wholeheartedly. Nu-Trek has been such a disaster that there's plenty to mock. Strange New Worlds and Picard Season 3 are the only things that even have a passing resemblance to what Star Trek is supposed to be.

I would suggest for Discovery, adding details about all of the retarded shit that they have done (and mind you, I just know about this stuff from reading articles and watching Youtube videos, because I gave up on the appropriately named STD after 3 episodes, such as:

Unnecessarily redesigning the Klingon makeup and making them into Klingorcs, redesigning the bat'leth so that the sharp part points backwards, making the main protagonist a "strong woman of color" with a male name who was (surprise!) another long-lost relative of sorts that was never previously mentioned to Spock a la Sybok in Star Trek V (still the worst ST film of all time, which is incredible), mentioning how she constantly cries and gets emotional, the retarded idea of the "spore drive" that operates on a magical network of space mushrooms...

How they fucked up canon so badly and had such a fan backlash and lost audience that they sent them 1000 years into the future just to limit the damage their shitty writers could do, and once they arrive 1000 years in the future there's no federation because there's no dilithium and they must solve this mystery and it turns out the reason for this catastrophe was that an alien had a sad when his mommy died, which somehow destroyed all of the dilithium in the entire galaxy, maybe in the entire multiverse!

Picard - Overuse to the extreme of the same actors / actresses in season 1 and 2 for multiple parts without any explanation of how or why these people all look the same, the Federation having officers who are outright unprofessional and swear at each other, the nickname "JL", the ridiculous idea of having all of Season 2 ultimately be about a 90+ year old Picard coming to terms with his mother's death from when he was a kid, the 2024 subplot of S2 where a guy is basically older Fox Mulder, etc. Oh, and the pointless appearance of Wesley Crusher for all of 2 lines that nobody asked for and literally nobody wanted at the end of S2. Thank God they had the good sense not to shoehorn those fucking faggots (both the character and Wil Wheaton are in fact faggots) into S3, because I would have quit watching right then and there, and so would most of the rest of the audience, nostalgia be damned.

I've never seen Lower Decks or Prodigy, they're both animated and seemingly geared toward kids / teenagers, which is why I skipped them but if Kurtzman is running the show behind the scenes for those projects also, I'm sure they are pure shit. Strange New Worlds has been OK, very much in the vein of early season TNG and all of TOS, it's not a great show but compared to the other dreck that we've gotten, which is bad-by-any-measure scifi with a Star Trek label slapped on, it's fucking Shakespeare.

I would also cover in more detail all three Jarjar Abrams era films, because none of those were very good either, and they deserve mockery.

The Berman era gets a lot of shit, especially toward the end, by Roddenberry fanboys who say gay shit like "He destroyed Gene's vision!" but Star Trek succeeded despite Gene Roddenberry, not because of him. There are plenty of books and documentaries available, and once you see how the sausage was made, its amazing that that fat faggot was even the least bit able to get out of the real professionals' way and let them do their jobs. Rick Berman tried too hard to "protect Gene's vision", but at least he understood to some degree what Star Trek was supposed to be all about. Alex Kurzman and the rest of the retards running Nu-Trek have no idea, because they've never liked it, never seen it, seem to think that pew-pew space battles and really bad ideas are all it takes to make it Star Trek.

The saddest part is that once the much-maligned Enterprise had a showrunner, Manny Coto, who actually was a life-long Star Trek fan, it became quite a decent show. It's a shame it got cancelled. If Paramount had any fucking sense they would do the same with whatever's left, find a Hollywood professional with the requisite experience who ACTUALLY LIKES STAR TREK to run their most valuable property.

 

[The Pulverizer]

You mention “4 embarrassing horsemen”, but kind of talk about each TV show at the same time. We need at least individual sections for STD, Picard, Lower Decks, and Strange New Worlds (Picard alone can have several paragraphs going over it’s issues and how season 3 sort of retcon’d everything (or so I heard) but instead we get no meat). You say the nuTrek “movie” (there were 3 remember?) was a failure, but why did they make 3 of them (with a 4th maybe still going to happen)?

I wanted more input before adding more information regarding all the new TV shows. As for the movies I should've added a sentence about Star Trek Beyond's box office failure after mentioning Into Darkness. The 4th movie has been in development hell for ages and will likely not happen.
There's lots to add and I can't spend an entire day writing an OP. Edits are on their way however.

Agreed with poster above. There's much more to add, such as STD being plagiarized from the indy game Tardigrades, or the character Icheb being brought back for a scene (recast) to be tortured because the actor tweeted Trump support. Nutrek has been a disaster that hit me hard around STID because I realized Trek's return was now a Pet Semetary scenario.

There is lots to talk about nutrek and I want to make sure that I do it right. I plan to rewrite most of the middle section to add a summary of the disastrous productions as well as small details like the indie game you mentioned.

 

[CowPox]

Everything sucks because all the writing is done by talentless nepo babies instead of people with merit and passion.

 

[The Pulverizer]

The saddest part is that once the much-maligned Enterprise had a showrunner, Manny Coto, who actually was a life-long Star Trek fan, it became quite a decent show. It's a shame it got cancelled. If Paramount had any fucking sense they would do the same with whatever's left, find a Hollywood professional with the requisite experience who ACTUALLY LIKES STAR TREK to run their most valuable property.

I think Nutrek is fueled by pure nepotism. Enterprise was cancelled on the whim of Paramount's then CEO but this shitshow hasn't been making money for 10 years and they're still going. It's absurd how Kurzman and co. have been failing endlessly and yet are still alowed to continue operating. His only success was Mission Impossible 3 and he's been riding that his whole career.
It really stings because Season 5 was going to get awesome with the Romulan war and the races from the ancient TOS cartoon show returning.

 

[Tablet County]

I've seen a bit of Star Trek, but I'm not a Star Trek fan per se. I am a Red Letter Media fan and watching them slowly die on the inside gives me an idea of what you're going through, as does my own experience witnessing the similar cuckening of Star Wars.

 

[CaptainAutism69]

Can people stop saying SNW is good? It's not good, it's diversity bingo with trannies, coons and rape victims, with a 'sense of humour' which belongs on 'Friends' instead of Trek. Saying SNW is good, is like being happy you lost only your foot in a car accident rather than your entire leg.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

While all modern scifi sucks, nutrek was especially hit badly. My guess is that star trek is especially badly positioned in modern politics. You can't have a good federation because any source of power that is militaristic is intrinsically bad. You can't have grey moral dilemmas because we're at the age of moral absolutism. You can't have a chain of command because the writers have never went close to the army and consider intentions more important than consequences.

 

[CaptainAutism69]

Ahh yes, lets look at Picard Season 3.

After two seasons of utter shit, they went back to the drawing board and shat out a safe, by the numbers fan service piece to draw old fans back in who deluded themselves that this was the Picard they had all been waiting for. In reality we got a stale, sterile arching story, which was so fucking stupid that it sounds like ChatGPT wrote it. The borg work with the changelings to control all of the Federation ships who are now jacked into the space internet.
In reality the entire season was to set up another show with Captain Seven, her faggot first officer, and a bunch of annoying shits noone cares about and wishes they would die.

 

[Iron Jaguar]

Say what you like about the films - Chris Pine was an excellent Kirk.

 

[naaaaiiiiillllll!!!]

Say what you like about the films - Chris Pine was an excellent Kirk.

I'd go so far to say Karl Urban as Dr. "Bones" McCoy was the best thing about those movies myself.

 

[Iron Jaguar]

I'd go so far to say Karl Urban as Dr. "Bones" McCoy was the best thing about those movies myself.

I find it very difficult to be objective about Karl Urban, as he is a generally terrible actor. But he was good in that role, yes.

 

[The Pulverizer]

I'd go so far to say Karl Urban as Dr. "Bones" McCoy was the best thing about those movies myself.

Even though his character was given absolutely nothing to do. That's probably because the "writers" didn't understand the relationship between the main trio. In TOS McCoy would often visit the bridge to monitor the situation and offer his input regardless of whether or not the Captain requests it. He was all over Kirk and Spock when they made decisions he disagreed with which led to fun character moments.

 

[Standardized Profile]

Also it is surprising how conservative a lot of trek fans are -- almost paradoxically so.

It shouldn't be surprising. Star Trek was a space western created by WW2 veterans in the 1960s, was reborn as a series of action-adventure films and buddy comedies in the 1980s, and reached its zenith as a thoughtful sci-fi drama in the early 1990s. It represents the values of a generation that was born 100 years ago: meritocracy, colorblindness, and individual achievement; hierarchy, tradition, and respect for authority; plurality of opinion and debate; deterrence through superior firepower; military involvement in science, politics, and diplomacy; the superiority of Western Civilization over any form of collectivism, despotism, etc.; and homogeneous nation-states voluntarily cooperating or competing with one another.

It's true that Roddenberry inserted some real shitlibbery, especially later in his life. And Star Trek never really figured out how a post-scarcity economy would work, opening the door for some really brain-dead critiques of capitalism while the heroes continue to own property, run businesses, buy and sell things, etc. (All of that apparently stems from a joke in Star Trek IV when Kirk couldn't pay for a pizza.) These can be ignored while one appreciates the broader themes of the series.

 

[Absolutego]

Agreed with poster above. There's much more to add, such as STD being plagiarized from the indy game Tardigrades, or the character Icheb being brought back for a scene (recast) to be tortured because the actor tweeted Trump support. Nutrek has been a disaster that hit me hard around STID because I realized Trek's return was now a Pet Semetary scenario.

Fuck. STID had the same story about Peter Weller playing a Starfleet admiral trying to false flag a war with the Klingons as an episode of Enterprise. The same story with the same actor playing the same basic antagonist! They spent all that money and no one in production even noticed or cared. Good on Weller, though. Get that money.

It wasn't because of Trump support, it was because Icheb's original actor called the gay dude #MeToo-ing Kevin Spacey a prima donna doing it for the attention and he was one of the main stars on Discovery.