Oh Captain!

lost Captain

I watched a girl come to tears

A Star Trek fan for years and years

But this new show

Discovery

Has sold her cherished memory

To a world so changed

Star Trek is about hope

Hope is no longer dope

Stories need to be dark

Then darker

Then darker still

Protagonist need to

torture

never stun

Never justify

just kill

Cheapest thrill

We live in a world of Guantanamo bay

Right is grey

Only a presidents tweet can sway

A united world

A United federation

Fantasies of a pre Brexit

Pre wall building generation

Star Treks heart had a Captain

A moral compass

Who stood for hope in diversity

compassion

Alas

It killed that Captain by episode two.

The protagonist now free of moral due

As soap writers free to screw

whatever they want to screw.

Dark

Dark

Darker

Despair

Despairs

Don't care

From the captains empty chair

Genes ghost did whisper

In her ear

'It could be worse'

'of course'

'Look what they did to Star Wars.'