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Was the bad writing in Star Trek Enterprise showing the early symptoms of woke Hollywood?


Star Trek Enterprise was the last series in the classic franchise, we're talking about early 2000s, and it's considered the worst of all¹ .

I'm rewatching it now, and most of the problems in the series are caused by two characters: Captain Archer and Engineer Tucker (Trip). The rest of the characters are in general quite well written. T'Pol is probably the best Vulcan character besides Spock and one of the best characters in the whole franchise. Archer and Tucker, on the contrary, look out of place, as a couple of unprofessional and unreliable officers, with Tucker behaving as a spoiled fickle child and Archer being constantly emotional and preachy. Being main characters, they screw almost every episode in the series.

And besides Reeds, they are the only white males among the recurrent characters. What the odds, huh?

It looks a bit like some early symptoms of wokeness, making the white males characters spoiled and unreliable, but they were still main characters. However, it was enough to make the series much worse than it could have been. If Archer and Tucker had been properly written, this series could have been as good as TNG.

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¹ I'm leaving aside the (awful) modern ones.

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