<p>The new &#8220;Star Trek&#8221; series starring Sir Patrick Stewart isn&#8217;t being explicitly billed as &#8220;woke,&#8221; but it seems the series&#8217; star, who will reprise his role as the legendary Enterprise captain, Jean-Luc Picard, believes &#8220;Star Trek: Picard&#8221; will have a message for anti-immigrant leaders and global isolationists.</p>
<p>The series will have a &#8220;more pessimistic take&#8221; on Starfleet, the quasi-military arm that handles discovery, research, and, generally, law enforcement duties for the  United Federation of Planets, <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/star-trek-picard-series-plot-patrick-stewart-utopia-starfleet-united-federation-planets-logan-1481144">according to Newsweek</a>. Stewart described the fictional organization, now years past the events of &#8220;Star Trek: The Next Generation,&#8221; and the subsequent Star Trek films, as hopelessly corrupt and cruelly &#8220;isolationist&#8221; in the face of a galactic refugee crisis.</p>
<p>&#8220;<em>Picard</em>, which will debut January 23 on CBS All Access, portrays a corrupted federation, which has turned isolationist in response to a Romulan refugee crisis, caused by the destruction of their home world by a supernova in the year 2387. That same event spawned the parallel timeline setting for 2009&#8217;s &#8220;Star Trek&#8221; reboot movie and its two sequels,&#8221; the outlet reported late last week.</p>
<p>Stewart&#8217;s Picard, whom Stewart refers to as a paragon of virtue (a description that fits the character as he&#8217;s long been portrayed) will stand up &#8220;for the federation, for what it should still represent,&#8221; as the character says in a clip from the show: “Everything he does is filled with innate integrity. He fights for the things he believes in. And he’s very willing to collaborate once you’re on the same wavelength.”</p>
<p>But Stewart will play the role, he says, as a way of injecting some of his own virtue into a world torn by Brexit and by President Donald Trump, <a href="https://variety.com/2020/tv/features/patrick-stewart-star-trek-picard-cbs-all-access-1203459573/">he tells Variety Magazine</a> in an extensive profile.</p>
<p>&#8220;Picard,&#8221; he notes, is &#8220;me responding to the world of Brexit and Trump and feeling, &#8216;Why hasn&#8217;t the federation changed? Why hasn&#8217;t Starfleet changed? Maybe they&#8217;re not as reliable and trustworthy as we all thought.&#8221;</p>
<p>Stewart goes on to describe both the United Kingdom and the United States as &#8220;f***ed.&#8221;</p>
<p>But even if &#8220;Picard&#8221; depicts a United Federation of Planets beseiged by a refugee crisis, there&#8217;s little to compare what&#8217;s happening to the worlds of &#8220;Star Trek&#8221; to the world of today. For starters, the Federation has unlimited resources, both real and manufactured, to provide a struggling group of aliens (even if the &#8220;Prime Directive,&#8221; which prohibits Starfleet from taking an active role in a species&#8217; development might present some ethical issues with a major recovery effort). The United States, the United Kingdom, and Europe as a whole do not.</p>
<p>And that&#8217;s if you don&#8217;t consider precisely what the Romulans are &#8212; a long-term villian in the Star Trek universe, whose efforts at fomenting unrest and even civil war are well documented.</p>
<p>But how the &#8220;refugee crisis&#8221; in &#8220;Star Trek&#8221; is treated remains to be seen. A series true to Gene Roddenberry&#8217;s vision would take the history of the show and its characters into account, but it also wouldn&#8217;t shy away from having a political point of view &#8212; perhaps even one that differs from Stewart&#8217;s own.</p>
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