The basic idea is that ’80s Star Trek films smacked of maturity, character and grace under pressure while the Chris Pine Star Trek films too often smacked of immaturity and impulsiveness, and were altogether whiny and enraged. And this devolution of a once-beloved franchise was primarily the fault of the coddled, wimpy, candy-assed writers (Simon Pegg Doug Jung, Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman, Damon Lindelof, et, al.).
Critical Drinker, 11.2.21, 12:46 mark: “The final and probably biggest strand is the people hired to write this stuff. I’ve said before that a character is only as smart, capable and resourceful as the person writing them, and…well, you don’t need me to tell you that Hollywood creators these days aren’t exactly paragons of tough, stoic, confident self-reliance. They’re the kind of people who consider mean tweets to be on par with mass murder.
“The end result of all this is a generation of writers who are weak, fragile, spoiled, narcissistic, emotionally insecure…basically children in adult bodies. The ridiculous infantile shite that today’s writers produce” — the plot of Edgar Wright and Krysty Wilson-Cairns‘ Last Night in Soho, for example — “[fortifies] the endless river of sludge that passes for modern entertainment.”