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Stargate SG-1 was maybe optimistic sci-fi.

Actually it was settled in the present but it was full of good human vibes and human values.

It had an incredible vibe of “humanity is good and humanity will stand against anything bad”. It was really naive in how it described the human nature but I’m sure it was deliberate.

And also it was fun.

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I agree, but even they touched on how delicate our human systems were. Not sure which season, but in one of the later ones there was a major change because a new president was elected and put different people in charge that had a very different view of how the stargate should be managed and not in a good way. Felt prescient viewed from today.

Not dissimilar from how the very worst and most dangerous villains in the star trek universe were always star fleet admirals.

That was 20 years ago (1997–2006) (sorry), Eureka was a little more recent and very optimistic (2006 - 2012), the new star treks are recent but they have lost their optimism, I'm not really sure what they are.

Discovery went dark, true (sometimes literally) but I've heard the new one is positive?

And Lower Decks was absolute blast with so much Star Trek energy in it, and it was pretty optimistic too.

Strange New World feels like TOS. Picard was amazing for season 3 (and, lord knows, most ST gets better in the later seasons).

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is fun and optimistic and knows what it is, but you're right about Picard and Discovery. Very confused shows with no good self-identity and Picard especially posits a dystopian future and dystopian responses to it which is a huge letdown for a Trek show.

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