Like so many of the series loved by Gen X, Hollywood combined their lack of imagination with their greed and crossed that with their self-important duty to impose their Very Important Values onto us. With a firm middle-finger raised to the fandom, which is was largely white men, they remade classic entertainment like Star Wars, Doctor Who and Star Trek in their image. If that wasn’t bad enough, it was poorly written slop by people who had contempt for the source material and minimal storytelling skills.
That brings us to a post that immediately inspired dread in the hearts of Star Trek fans who loved the original series and The Next Generation.
GAG WARNING!
🚨 BREAKING – New Star Trek: #StarfleetAcademy Poster!
The first season of the new #StarTrek live-action series premieres January 15th on Paramount+
🖖 Will YOU be watching? pic.twitter.com/xRdeHfboRD
— Trek Central (@TheTrekCentral) December 4, 2025
Nope. As much as this writer loves paying for content written by people who hate him, it’s not going to happen. While we’re sure it will be loaded with ham-handed special messages about gender spectrums and love-is-love, the teen drama stuff will be harder to stomach than a gut full of Regulan Bloodworms.
Lots of Trek fans expressed similar sentiments in their answers to the above question.
— Sameer reTweet King Mohan (@sameerMohan2) December 4, 2025
Everything I’ve seen on this show looks horrible. Pass. pic.twitter.com/9ztFLwIpwG
— Recondite Autodidact 🇺🇸 (@ScribaTerrarum) December 4, 2025
One Tree Hill: The Next Generation pic.twitter.com/sFC2jctetD
— Jon McBrine | Author/Designer (@jonmcbrine) December 4, 2025
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Gawd, who hit the Saurian Brandy?
Stardate: 90210 https://t.co/W6yC0HClSG
— Aaron L Bennett (@ALBennett89) December 4, 2025
They friggin made Star Trek into a CW teen show. 🤮🤮🤮 https://t.co/qp6WZ7dzYK
— Punfinity (@pun_masked) December 4, 2025
How much does Paramount hate us and/or the series to do this to us?
This looks like an advertisement for HIV medication. https://t.co/GSGr3eO5JT
— Isaac556x45 (@Isaac556x45) December 4, 2025
Episode 4: Understanding Space AIDS.
No, Alex Kurtzman and his hack writers have ruined Star Trek.
— Jalebi (@ennuiforlife) December 4, 2025
It would seem that Kurtzman hijacked the Star Trek franchise to settle old scores with whomever hurt him is his youth.
Episode 1: The Fonzie Incident pic.twitter.com/naxxE8Jc76
— Rob McCray (@clanmacrae9) December 4, 2025
LOL! Perfect.
Congrats on unifying a fanbase into hating something that looks so lame https://t.co/R4lu5Ld1zE
— F.J. DeSanto (@FJDesanto) December 4, 2025
It has to be intentional. Mocking contempt for the longtime fans with lots of disposable income cannot be a winning business model, right Paramount? RIGHT?
— MDK1701 (@MDK17011) December 4, 2025
Yep. As anyone who grew up coming home from school and watching Trek before starting homework can tell you, it has been a massacre worse that the Doomsday Machine could have pulled off.
HELL
NO#RIPStarTrek https://t.co/QDPGTNjCiS pic.twitter.com/tsHRj9fML7
— Darius the Starborn (@djb21212) December 4, 2025
We’ll end this with these clips from the last great Star Trek movie.
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