From Star Trek: Discovery
Star Trek: Discovery Season 2 highlights a diverse lead cast and foregrounds LGBTQ relationships with some contemporary messaging, but its central sci-fi mystery and family drama keep these elements from dominating the story. This balanced approach results in a moderate 6/10 wokeness score.
Star Trek: Discovery Season 2 features a lead cast centered on Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green, a Black woman) alongside recurring characters like the openly gay couple Paul Stamets (Anthony Rapp) and Hugh Culber (Wilson Cruz), whose relationship receives dedicated screen time including emotional arcs in episodes such as 'Saints of Imperfection' and 'If Memory Serves.' The season continues the show's pattern of foregrounding racial and sexual orientation diversity in the bridge crew and supporting roles, with creator Alex Kurtzman explicitly linking story elements to contemporary issues like 'building walls around ourselves' and assumptions about diversity in Starfleet doctrine.
The core plot revolves around the Red Angel mystery—revealed as Burnham's mother Gabrielle (Sonja Sohn)—and Spock's involvement, which incorporates personal family drama but layers in themes of faith and self-belief framed through a modern lens. Audience reception shows clear pushback, with Metacritic user reviews frequently citing 'ham-fistedly woke' messaging, 'woke garbage,' and complaints that representation feels performative rather than organic, contributing to critic-audience score gaps. While the season's sci-fi mystery premise does not collapse without these elements, the casting choices and subplot emphasis on LGBTQ relationships elevate their prominence beyond incidental inclusion.
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We've run a full content analysis on Star Trek: Discovery - Season 2 and scored it 6/10 on the woke scale. Read our detailed breakdown above to see exactly what we found.
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