While I was watching bits and pieces of the pilot episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds on YouTube, I came across this YouTube clip showing Gene Roddenberry’s original choice to command the NCC-1701 Enterprise, Christopher Pike (Anson Mount), appearing to teach an alien planet’s people about the insurrection at the Capitol that Donald Trump incited, with Pike apparently trying to dissuade this planet’s leaders from using a weapon — a weapon the United Federation of Planets had accidentally given this planet’s leaders — against each other.
And here is footage of Donald Trump and his toadies addressing the crowd during that rally that immediately preceded the insurrection, footage that should have been in Pike’s history lesson to this alien planet’s people.
If a Starfleet officer representing the Federation is playing footage of the insurrection at the Capitol for an alien planet’s people, it raises the possibility that Starfleet Academy cadets are reading about the insurrection. And if Starfleet cadets are reading about the insurrection, it’s likely they are also reading about the one hundred forty-seven seditious Congressional Rethuglycrooks who — after the Capitol was stormed — tried to overturn Joe Biden’s victory.
I’ve written about finding a scene in the Walt Disney Company’s 2017 “Beauty And The Beast” live-action remake with similarities to Trump’s January 6 rally, but I didn’t count on footage of the insurrection making its way into an episode of Star Trek. I expected that Trump and Biden would have their own pages at the Disney Wiki because they have animatronic replicas at Walt Disney World’s Hall of Presidents, but I did not expect either Trump or Biden to each have a page at Memory Alpha. And I certainly did not expect those red “Make America Great Again” hats to have a page at Memory Alpha.