That’s a good take and that’s also why I reject “sure the Torment Nexus is tormenting people in a nexus right now but in a fantastically different society it might actually be a pleasant and nice thing” takes on contemporary horrors such as cryptocurrency, microplastics, and data mining software.
When I was a young LIB I used to be annoyed that the Enterprise-D’s interior looked like a luxury hotel and had schools and children running around.
I feel like my griping about that caused a monkey’s paw to curl and gave us decades of tacticool P R E S T I G E T V bullshit in its place that is only now gradually starting to clear up with Strange New Worlds. sicko-wistful
Strange New Worlds is the Trek we should have had all throughout the “reimagining/shot in the arm” years where Abrams giggled and bashed other people’s toys together while making explosion sounds. sicko-wistful