{"id":7769,"date":"2017-10-12T05:00:51","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T09:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/?p=7769"},"modified":"2025-03-28T15:54:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T18:54:46","slug":"526-u-n-conscionable-disappointing-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/archives\/7769","title":{"rendered":"526 – U.N.conscionable \/ Disappointing discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The debut of the latest Star Trek<\/strong> series, Discovery<\/strong>, has certainly produced some highly polarized views. It has even generated some controversies that may have more to do with Donald Trump\u2019s \u201cAmerica First\u201d policies<\/strong> than with Discovery\u2019s story itself.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s difficult to deny that the strongest reactions to Discovery have been the negative ones \u2013 those from fans disappointed with what they saw in the series\u2019 first three episodes \u2013 we included. It\u2019s also difficult to deny that whether or not Star Trek Discovery is great entertainment depends upon the eye of the beholder.<\/p>\n

But a greater question has arisen, one concerning the Law of Identity: Does Discovery \u201cpass the Star Trek smell test\u201d? Is it \u201cStar Trek\u201d?<\/strong> Are there any objective ways to decide? Does it even matter? Or is this simply another matter to be settled by the \u201ceye of the beholder\u201d?<\/p>\n

As a barometer of the times in which its stories were broadcast, the world of Star Trek itself has become increasingly transformed from one of individual rights and individual identity (the hallmarks of a free society) to one of group rights and group identities, with all of the implications that each suggests.<\/strong><\/p>\n

So it should not be too surprising to \u201cdiscover\u201d that even Donald Trump has been implicated in what\u2019s happening in the world of Star Trek Discovery \u2013 events that parallel our own world affairs today.<\/p>\n

Join us for an alien experience that begins with a Discovery of inconvenient truths uncovering the evil of North Korea\u2019s Kim Jong Un, the deceptive aims of the United Nations, and the fact that Donald Trump may be the world\u2019s only voice of reason on the international front.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As Trump works to contain North Korea\u2019s evil and to focus the aims of the United Nations to more productive ends, he may now find himself faced with another “critic” \u2013 Star Trek Discovery. Here\u2019s hoping it\u2019s an overstatement to suggest that Hollywood\u2019s Left is now using one of America\u2019s most powerful television symbols for the values of a free society \u2013 the Star Trek franchise \u2013 as a propaganda weapon against those very values.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But on first impression, the latest Star Trek addition \u2013 Discovery \u2013 certainly appears to have abandoned the vision and spirit of series creator Gene Roddenberry. Unless its writers and creators move quickly to recapture that spirit, Discovery may never shine enough even to produce a faint reflection of how brightly Star Trek shone when it was Just Right.<\/p>\n

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Your browser does not support the audio element. The debut of the latest Star Trek series, Discovery, has certainly produced some highly polarized views. It has even generated some controversies that may have more to do with Donald Trump\u2019s \u201cAmerica First\u201d policies than with Discovery\u2019s story itself. It\u2019s difficult to deny that the strongest reactions [Continue Reading]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12,1046,28,6,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-entertainment","category-audio","category-foreign-relations-politics","category-latest","category-politics","category-television","issues-north-korea","issues-star-trek","issues-star-trek-discovery","issues-united-nations","personalities-donald-trump","category-7-id","category-12-id","category-1046-id","category-28-id","category-6-id","category-13-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7769"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15240,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7769\/revisions\/15240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}