Musk and Stephen Miller criticize Starfleet Academy after Paramount Plus premiere

Polygon reports Elon Musk and White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller have criticized Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, which premiered on Paramount Plus on Jan. 15. Musk reacted on X to a clip showing Captain Nahla Ake (Holly Hunter) wearing reading glasses on the bridge of the U.S.S.

Athena, commenting, “Turns out they banned Ozempic and LASIK in the future lol.” The series has also been review bombed for being too “woke.” The article notes Star Trek’s long history of challenging intolerance, from the original 1967 series’ inclusion of a Black woman and a Russian man and television’s first interracial kiss to episodes like “Let That Be Your Last Battlefield,” and later milestones including Black and female captains and Discovery’s gay, trans, and nonbinary characters.

The coverage points out that Musk made his comments the same week he joined Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on the “Arsenal of Freedom” tour and said he wanted to “make Starfleet Academy real,” while Hegseth flashed the Vulcan salute. Co-showrunner Alex Kurtzman said the show’s story about a new generation inheriting a divided world is meant to follow Star Trek tradition by commenting on current conflicts; the series’ primary villain is a space pirate.

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