Stephen Miller, a top White House aide and the architect of Trump’s mass-deportations plan, expressed dismay about a new Star Trek series that debuted this week on Paramount’s streaming service. In the post, Miller shared another post by an account named “End Wokeness” that featured a 15-second clip from Star Trek: Starfleet Academy. The account captioned it with the vague description “Star Trek 2026 … Beyond parody …”
That’s it. I rewatched the clip a few times to make sure I hadn’t missed something more subtle. Even casual fans know that Star Trek is famous for its progressive themes and messages, but this clip didn’t even have that. It’s literally just three characters talking about spacial anomalies. I’ve seen nearly identical scenes dozens of times in the hundreds of Trek episodes that have been aired over the last six decades. Nor can it be said to be “beyond parody”—Trek’s reliance on “technobabble” for the sake of plot advancement has been widely parodied for decades.
In another context, this might be an amusing post. Fans of Star Trek have been trying to “save” the franchise for the last 60 years. Past generations of fans bemoaned Star Trek: The Next Generation when it first aired; it turned out to be a massive success and is now widely considered to be one of the best television series of all time. I have personally enjoyed parts of the streaming-era Trek shows and disliked (sometimes strongly) other creative decisions. That’s fine. It’s a big universe, and it can’t make everyone happy.
Giving Shatner “creative control” over Star Trek is also a bizarre suggestion for “saving” Star Trek. For one thing, the actor is 94 years old. He appears to be active and in fairly good health, but that is quite an age to ask someone to run a production company’s most famous franchise for the foreseeable future.
This is also the same William Shatner who famously took part in the first interracial kiss in U.S. television history, during Star Trek’s original run in the 1960s—a milestone that is unremarkable today but was momentous in the civil rights era. Shatner later said in interviews that he pushed for the kiss to be filmed and included, overcoming resistance from network executives who feared a revolt by Southern stations and affiliates. (In her biography, Star Trek’s Nichelle Nichols wrote that she and Shatner conspired to flub their lines in the alternative cuts of the scene in which they did not kiss that the show’s producers requested, in order to ensure their preferred take was aired.)
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Shatner translated his frustration over his character’s fate into a series of non-canonical Star Trek novels exploring Kirk’s post-Generations resurrection. Fans have (somewhat affectionately) dubbed them the Shatnerverse. In the books, Kirk is brought back to life by the Borg and saved by the Next Generation–era crew. He then marries a half-Klingon, half-Romulan woman—something that the anti-woke folks would hardly tolerate today—and fights his counterpart in the Mirror Universe, who happens to be the cruel, arbitrary emperor of a fascist version of the Federation.
What is really reprehensible here isn’t that Stephen Miller doesn’t know ball—or whatever the Trek equivalent of that would be—but the utterly mundane nature of the clip in question. The “wokeness” isn’t anything from Star Trek that might obviously touch a right-wing nerve today. It’s not a scene from the 1992 episode where one of the main characters, who is typically depicted as a ladies’ man, falls in love with what would now be described as a nonbinary character. Nor is it a clip involving the Deep Space Nine character whose experiences with changing genders have resonated among transgender viewers.
It’s just three women talking. That’s all. That’s what they consider “wokeness” and “beyond parody.” If they said this at a Star Trek convention, they would be mocked and jeered for how pathetic they sound. What we have instead is a top White House official publicly urging a company whose owners have close ties to the president to scrap a television show with women and minorities in the case, so that a 94-year-old white man—one who probably isn’t even interested in the job—can take over. They cannot conceive of a world that does not cater to their every whim, and they will burn ours down to slake their own insecurities.
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