You’ve seen the playbook before. A strange sickness gets into one of America’s cherished institutions, hollowing it out from the inside until only a brittle shell remains. What was once built to inspire is captured by cultural vandals—people who think they know better than you—and twisted into a tool to lecture and divide. They seem to believe that by seizing control of the brands we grew up with, they can force-feed us their radical new worldview.

Nowhere is this campaign more obvious than in Hollywood, where authentic storytelling has been replaced with clumsy activism. Classic narratives that once championed heroism and discovery are systematically dismantled. In their place, we are given joyless sermons on identity politics, all wrapped in the familiar packaging of a story we once loved. But Americans are not buying it, and the latest casualty in this cultural war just suffered a failure of truly galactic proportions.

From Breitbart’s John Nolte:

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy has been available free for five days and earned only 176,000 views.

People aren’t even hate-watching this woketardery.

Take a moment to understand just how big of a flop this is… For 60 years, Star Trek has been one of the most beloved and famous brands in popular culture. This heavily-promoted premiere episode was made available … for FREE … on YouTube… and still, it’s earned only 176,000 views over five full days… For comparison, Critical Drinker published his epic critique of Starfleet Academy on YouTube 20 hours ago, and it’s already earned 850,000 views.

The subject of this stunning collapse is Paramount’s new series, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy. Hollywood took one of the crown jewels of American culture and turned it into an ugly, woke mess that audiences are actively fleeing from.

An Epic Failure by the Numbers

Let’s be clear: this isn’t just a feeling. The numbers are an absolute bloodbath. For a brand as massive as Star Trek, attracting a paltry 176,000 views on a free platform is a disaster. It’s so unpopular, people won’t even watch it when it costs them nothing.

The verdict on YouTube is even more damning. The episode currently sits at a catastrophic 7,000 likes to 22,000 dislikes. The free market of ideas has spoken, delivering a resounding thumbs-down. It’s almost comical. Americans are far more interested in watching a critic roast the show than in watching the actual show itself.

Ideology Replaces Inspiration

The reason for this failure is obvious. The show jettisoned the core tenets that made Starfleet great—discipline, professionalism, and merit—for a cast of characters Nolte aptly described as “smug, childish, unprofessional weirdoes.” The vision of humanity’s best exploring the stars has been replaced by what feels like a floating diversity seminar obsessed with petty grievances.

This is not the franchise that gave us the stoic leadership of Captain Kirk or the dignified wisdom of Jean-Luc Picard. This is a universe where a starship captain curls up in her command chair to read a book, embodying the utter lack of seriousness that has infected modern progressive culture. It’s a vision of the future that inspires no one.

Fans Choose Tradition Over Propaganda

But here’s the beautiful part. As Paramount’s woke starship crashes and burns, a powerful counter-trend is taking shape. According to Giant Freakin Robot, interest in classic Star Trek is exploding. While the new show floundered, a simple YouTube discussion about the 1990s series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine pulled in over 380,000 views in its first day.

Fans haven’t abandoned Star Trek; they have abandoned Hollywood’s corrupted version of it. They are “voting with their clicks,” actively seeking out the older shows that celebrated complex moral questions and timeless stories. A whole new generation is discovering the quality of the franchise’s golden age, proving that good ideas never die.

The message to the entertainment industry is simple: respect your audience or lose them. Quality and tradition, it turns out, have a much longer shelf life than cheap political posturing. In the case of Starfleet Academy, the verdict is already in.

Key Takeaways

• The new Star Trek failed because it put woke ideology before quality storytelling.
• Audiences are overwhelmingly rejecting Hollywood’s propaganda by “voting with their clicks.”
• Viewership for classic, traditional shows is surging as new content becomes politicized.
• The free market is effectively punishing corporations that embrace the “Go Woke, Go Broke” model.

Sources: Breitbart, GIANT FREAKIN ROBOT