Paramount spent somewhere north of a hundred million dollars on a tv series called “Star Trek – Starfleet Academy.” I guess they realized after the fact that it was unwatchable and so they put the first episode on YouTube for free. But nobody watched it. Now that’s an exaggeration. Technically thirteen hundred (1,300) people viewed it. But on YouTube that’s equivalent to zero.
So basically, they spent a hundred million dollars on something that no one wants to see.
If you watch the trailer you’ll understand why. Starfleet Academy seems to be made up of fat lesbians. Some are human, some are alien but all of them are fat and all of them are lesbians. Once again this is an exaggeration. They also have Holly Hunter as the captain or head schoolmarm or something. And I believe there is a gay Klingon. So, yay.
Just as with Star Wars, Star Trek has finally reached the epitome of destruction. Over the course of the last sixty years or so it went from a mildly entertaining sci-fi adventure series to a Woke DEI Struggle Session. Well, who wouldn’t pay to see that?
As with Star Wars, the makers of this new show miscalculated something about the audience and their products. And it’s this: The audience that enjoys the “message” they’re pushing in these shows doesn’t like science fiction. And the audience that likes science fiction doesn’t like their “message.” It’s like that day in math class where they explain Venn diagrams and unions and intersections and all that jazz. Well, the circle of people who like the message and the circle of people who like science fiction do not intersect at all; open space between the blue and red circles. No purple.
This show was green-lit before Paramount was purchased by David Ellison. He isn’t woke. I’m guessing that losing a hundred million dollars on a show nobody wants to see is going to make him very mad. Hopefully this will result in the series being cancelled and the team responsible for this travesty being fired.
Coincidentally, Kathleen Kennedy has just been fired from running Lucas Films over at Disney. It was described as her desire to get back to personally producing pictures for Disney but I’m pretty sure they’ve had enough of her “golden touch.” She singlehandedly incinerated the Star Wars brand and lost many hundreds of millions of dollars at Disney by doing the same thing that the Star Trek franchise did. They made a Star Wars brand for girls and girls don’t like science fiction.
Well, here we are. A decade into the complete feminization of action adventure and all the major franchises have been rendered toxic and unwatchable. Even the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been losing money on its girl-boss outreach program. Now what?
I guess we’re all hoping that losing all that money will finally get the studios to step back and reflect. We’re about to find out. Summer 2026 is right around the corner and we can expect to get some kind of answer from the tent pole summer movie list. If it’s more estrogen laden, DEI boiler plate then I guess they still have some more money to burn. But I can always hope.