Star Trek is struggling to find its moment – and it might need to face up to a hard truth

Star Trek is struggling to find its moment – and it might need to face up to a hard truth

There’s a scene late in the 1991 movie Star Trek VI: the Undiscovered Country where old warhorses Kirk and Spock wonder whether they’ve outlived their own usefulness.The film itself is a Cold War allegory that sees the once-adversarial Klingons brokering for peace, a situation that leaves the Enterprise crewmates confronting a galaxy that may no longer need them.It’s a sobering moment in a story that serves as a swan song for the original team. …