What Makes Strange New Worlds As ‘Timely’ As Star Trek: The Original Series

Despite what the vocal minority might think, “Star Trek” has always been political by nature. When the “original chain” was first broadcast in the mid-sixties, well, I hope that I would not need to fill anyone for what was going on in the United States at the time-civil rights movement, the potential Vietnam War, the many assassinations, and more. The contract was a long moment of social disturbances and political turmoil, and the creator Jin Rodnberry chose the wisdom of not moving away from dealing with the reality surrounding his low -budget science imagination. This does not mean that the concession has always been successful In her ambitions, of course. Even the most sensitive attempts to talk about ethnic or gender inequality and other progressive values ​​across the “Star Trek” world unprecedented. However, like any good science fiction story, “Star Trek” introduces itself using the future to reflect our present … and “strange new worlds” that do not differ.

While the fans are looking for the “Strange New Worlds” for the third season, the first show in New York gave last month (which was attended by the actors’ team and its crew, the ideal opportunity to take the view of birds on the series as a whole. Prequel’s show was not shy about honoring the “original series” in many ways, but the co -observer Akifa Goldsman insists on doing this in a certain way. During a special event for questions and answers after presenting the first show for the third season, Goldsman was asked about taking a page from the playing book in Roddenberry and the use of “strange new worlds” to reflect a largely incomplete world in which we live now. After responding to Eadpan, “Yes, the world Absorb“Goldsman went to an explanation:

“It’s very interesting. 1968: It’s Bobby Kennedy, it’s Martin Luther King, it’s [the My Lai massacre]. It is a turning point in history. It is fair [history book] Our pages, but the world was burning, then, for those who lived in it. This is the fact that Star Trek’s birth time. This was the tradition of “Star Trek” along the way from its inception, which is a lens on the marital status of the market.

As we know, Paramount announced that “new worlds of String” will end with a fourth and severed season, so there will be more pressure to make the remaining episodes rise to the level of noble standards for the privilege. Despite all the Zany and Swanks buildings reached by the show on a weekly basis, the series has always found a way to weave social suspension in the middle of the work. Do not expect this to change in the next season (which Jacob Hall has reviewed).

Akiva Goldsman had more to say about keeping the series completely in line with the statement of its original mission and how to play in different types of offer to explore all the ideal inherent in the material. However, inevitably, this requires recycling its sleeves and dealing with the worst aspects of society – even in the virtuous (supposed) future. He continued to think about how all these topics that the “original chain” struggle remains with all these past years “at the right time” today, for the better or for the worst:

“It is migration, it is marginalized, it is integration, it is the abuse of power – all the things that, unfortunately, are at the right time today as it was. This type allows us to throw a carnival mirror, a way to allow ourselves to look at it safely.

“So, this is what” Star Trek “.

I don’t know about you, but all of this seems to be a music for Trekkie ears. And if those who do not hint that “strange new worlds” can continue in another form, we hope to see this creative team “The original series” channel to a greater degree. “Strange New Worlds” premiere for season 3 on Paramount+ July 17, 2025.