How Star Trek Discovery Is Honoring Gene Roddenberrys Vision In Season 4

How Star Trek: Discovery Is Honoring Gene Roddenberry’s Vision In Season 4

Star Trek: Discovery has deviated massively from Gene Roddenberry’s original vision, but season 4 brings the modern era much closer to his ideals.

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How Star Trek Discovery Is Honoring Gene Roddenberrys Vision In Season 4

Star Trek: Discovery is finally honoring Gene Roddenberry’s vision of a sci-fi future in season 4. When Gene Roddenberry conceptualized Star Trek in the 1960s, he mapped out a very specific landscape for 23rd century man. One of Roddenberry’s immovable tenets was how human civilization should’ve evolved beyond inner conflict, and this is why Star Trek: The Original Series threats came almost exclusively from outside. Even shirtless Sulu waving his sword around the Enterprise was blamed on an alien virus. As Star Trek expanded, however, other writers pushed to drop Roddenberry’s conflict limitation, giving the likes of The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine license to show Starfleet in a less harmonious light.

Star Trek: Discovery deviated even further from Roddenberry’s formula. The modern era opened with Michael Burnham becoming Starfleet’s very first mutineer – an unthinkable concept in decades past. Season 2 then pits the Discovery and Enterprise crews against Starfleet’s own clandestine Section 31 unit, while season 3 takes place in a post-Burn future where absolutely no one is getting along and the Federation has successfully maneuvered itself into obscurity.

Though Star Trek: Discovery has previously treated Gene Roddenberry’s template with all the delicacy of a Gorn suffering from toothache, season 4 finally brings Michael Burnham’s Disco crew around to Star Trek’s earliest line of thinking. Though mistrust and disagreements are still rife among Starfleet and the Federation, every clash between allies has been solved via peaceful diplomacy thus far. Paying further heed to Roddenberry’s utopian optimism, the central theme of Star Trek: Discovery season 4 is people coming together in a time of great crisis, whether that be Starfleet’s own officers, or former allies rediscovering each other after the Burn.

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The premiere opened with Burnham choosing pacifism to win over the Alshain, then learning to trust the Federation’s President Rillak despite harboring deep misgivings. Episode 2 showed everyone working together to solve a common problem, while episode 3 found delicate peace between conflicting cultures, reintroducing Star Trek: Picard’s Qowat Milat Romulan warriors nuns. In Star Trek: Discovery season 4’s “All Is Possible,” Burnham and Saru gently usher Ni’Var into the Federation via the backdoor of compromise, while Sylvia Tilly heals old Starfleet wounds by resolving ingrained discrimination between cadets of different species. Where past Star Trek: Discovery seasons might’ve pushed allies apart before (eventually) reconnecting them, season 4 is all about building bridges from the off.

Star Trek: Discovery season 4’s distinct Roddenberry tang is helped along by the central villain being a big space cloud rather than a person. Captain Kirk’s Enterprise crew would often encounter deadly space anomalies to serve as an episode’s main threat, uniting the human cast behind a shared goal. The Discovery’s current mission to somehow halt the DMA’s relentlessly unpredictably progression is serving a similar function, assembling all human characters toward one aim, and avoiding the more modern Star Trek trope of conflict starting from within.

Of course, there’s plenty of time for Star Trek: Discovery to change course in season 4. Until the origin of the DMA phenomenon is solved, it’s possible the gravitational flux was triggered deliberately. The timing is certainly convenient as President Rillak seeks to bolster the Federation’s membership uptake – “Quick, join us before the angry gravity cloud leaves you alone and defenseless.” Someone in the Federation might’ve found an old copy of Alan Moore’s Watchmen and decided to bring the quadrant together by manufacturing a common enemy, which would take Star Trek: Discovery right back to its traditional anti-Roddenberry perspective of conflict emanating from friendly faces. Until such time as a Federation or human enemy reveals itself, however, season 4 marks a long-awaited voyage home for Star Trek moral philosophy.

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