Re: Patrick Stewart is back as Captain Picard!
Great post
And I worked on TNG for short time in the early 90s (shortly before Roddenberry died) and Rick Berman was kind of a jerk.
A 'woke' person or agenda currently refers to delusional people who perceive our society as rife with social injustice such as bigotry, racism, economic inequality in every powerful organization and institution. They then try to force their version of justice in a variety of ways to correct these exaggerated problems often by oppressing people they disagree with or perceive to be 'privileged' by calling them slanderous names, such as calling Trump supporters as 'nazis' or 'racists' or trying to get people blacklisted or fired from their jobs or have social services investigate their children only because they're Republican or made a coarse joke.
Gene Roddenberry, Rick Berman, and the many showrunners of TOS, Next Gen., DS9, Voyager Ent., and the movies have struggled for years with writers that wanted to turn the Federation into the bad guys. You need antagonists to create drama and the writers often tried to turn the Federation into the source of the dilemma. It always went against the positive vision of Star Trek that the mostly human government would regress so the showrunners resisted the writers. You would from time to time see a individual within the Federation be the bad guy with a terrible idea or intention, but the Federation itself was always good and would do the right thing.
That's my main problem with the Federation refusing to help the Romulans, it's out of character.
Great post
And I worked on TNG for short time in the early 90s (shortly before Roddenberry died) and Rick Berman was kind of a jerk.