I've said it before on this thread, but it bears repeating. On top of everything you laid out. the writers and producers HAD to take actual entertainment into consideration. they couldn't just jam a bunch of social justice stuff in there without the show being entertaining to the masses. These here days, it seems the social justice message comes first...then maybe if they can possibly work some entertainment into the mix, so be it. In the mid to late 60's there were relatively few channels. Here in the USA, literally ABC, NBC, CBS, and some UHF stations. Now, there are hundreds and the viewing audience is fractured. Remember why TOS got cancelled? Low ratings (mostly). Back then, going after the average viewer was a must to ensure survival.
It's almost paradoxical. You'd think with more broadcasters and stuff like streaming services, the necessity to secure viewer approval is much stronger than back in the day, but it seems to be the opposite.
You will eventually find someone to peddle your bullshit to, if it isn't HBO, then Netflix might buy it, or Amazon or whoever.
More competition didn't make things better, it made things worse and it seems that many producers and broadcasters have started a race to the bottom, to see who can ship the most broken propaganda with the most terrible content.
Stranger still, they make something and tell the audience "if you are not entertained by this, you are a bigot" and it sometimes seemed to work to some degree.
Superficially, there are things that are "entertaining", such as space battles in STD/STP, but they are hollow and badly executed. There are quips, but they are poorly written and incompetently delivered ("It's the power of math people! C'mon!", "I like science!"). Some people will get dazzled by this stuff, but overall, these new shows offer nothing of substance. No interesting ideas on the future, fascinating contemplations on morals, no character-driven storytelling. Only heavy handed attempts to peddle some political bullshit in the most boring, most uncreative, most unimaginative way possible, that doesn't even pretend to make an attempt to make it fit the existing lore.
We are starting to see the death knells of this kind of """entertainment""". The new SW trilogy flopped in the end (well, it was commercially successful when you do not consider the initial cost of the IP), fans and critics alike tore that shit asunder after release. Star Trek has been failing for years now and is only kept alive by producers promising to their sponsors it'll pick up once this new concept or next season shakes up things with even more amazing nostalgia bait and ideological deadends.
But no matter what they do, their audiences are dwindling.
There are also like a million situations throughout the rest of the franchise where having personal shield of some kind would have been immensely useful.
Haven't seen that show, so I assume it's a belt/belt-item that pops a shield around a person to protect them from such things as exposure to vacuum and offers some protection from light impacts (both kinetic and energy-based)?
If so, such an item would be indispensable standard gear for every person in Starfleet at all times. Hull breach? Plasma leak? Shrapnell from an explosion? Attack by an animal or person during an away mission? Mirror-Universe Sulu starts knifing people in the kidneys?
Even if it can't withstand a phaser shot for longer than half a second, it would still give you half a second to dive for cover or return fire.
Even if the shield only has enough power for a minute (hell, even just a few seconds!) and it would be incredibly powerful.
It would be a lifesaver on a daily basis to literally thousands of people in Starfleet.
Introducing such gear is akin to that weird Borg-Nanite treatment they used in Voyager to resurrect Neelix several hours after his death. It begs the question: Why don't we see this being used all the goddamned time now? It's such an immensely huge gamechanger for anyone involved, security and Bridge Crew should be wearing it at all times and there is no excuse not to expand its use to the entire crew instantly, no matter the cost.
Another day, another new Star Trek series announced. This one is a cg animated series featuring Janeway and seems to be aimed a younger audience.
https://trekmovie.com/2020/10/08/br...turn-as-captain-janeway-in-star-trek-prodigy/
I'll reserve judgement but in my mind it will probably follow this logic: "Surely if we keep throwing shit at the wall something will stick"
I think, every Trek fan is just burned out by now. They ruined it with three shitty movies, then threw in a shitty show, followed by another shitty show (this time shitting on a beloved character, no less) and then created a shitty cartoon. It seems they now aim for a younger audience that might not have as high standards and that doesn't know the rich and amazing history of the franchise and how much it has been ruined by these assholes.
Trek is dead to the fans and this won't change it.
I think it would be down to the script at the end of the day.
