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4. That's Not Very Star Trek Now, Is It?
After the completion of the Paramount and Skydance merger, the future of Star Trek was thrown into further uncertainty with a rash of layoffs at the company. While that is sometimes nothing to consider when looking to the future of Trek content, at least in the creative process, these layoffs seemed to come with a particular slant.
Ahead of the merger, Skydance vowed to abandon all DEI initiatives at Paramount, removing any references to them from its internal messaging, websites, and training materials. This, along with a lawsuit settled with President Trump, secured the go-ahead from FCC Chairman Brendan Carr.
Star Trek has promoted diversity, equity, and inclusion from its earliest days. This pledge by the new owners of Trek to excise DEI initiatives from within its own company frightened many Trek fans, while drawing support from some conservative viewers and an army of right-wing bots online.
Robert Picardo, our favourite Emergency Medical Hologram, took to social media to assure fans that DEI isn't going anywhere when it comes to Star Trek. As he stated on X (formerly Twitter):
For Star Trek, DEI is in its DNA. It was WOKE for 1966, but 1966 was a long time ago. If our concept of diversity has changed a lot in 60 years, who's to say what it will look like 800 years from now?
While there will always be those people who support a homogenous, uniformity in the shows they watch, at least from within Star Trek, it looks as though there is still hope to be found.