I’ll agree that Star Trek at its best has always had a progressive stance that challenges societal expectations, but the problem with nuTrek (imo) is that the writing isn’t challenging expectations reflecting society at large, or examining it’s own biases, it’s just performative and pandering. It doesn’t seem to be written to encourage questioning as much as it appeals to nostalgia or engage in pleading the “right social perspective” that Hollywood happens to espouse that week. For God’s sake Elon was one of the “innovators” used as an example in DISCO when SpaceX happened to be popular.

Son of A Liche by J Zachary Pike. It’s the second book in the Dark Profit Saga. A friend of mine had recommended I read the first book (Orconomics) for years, and I finally got around to it. I’m enjoying the series so far, but I thought it was a standalone novel and was looking for a fun one-off read, so I probably wouldn’t have started it if I knew it was a series. The series satirizes fantasy tropes in the context of an excessively capitalist society built around a “hero-for-hire” industry. It’s got very tongue in cheek humor, and I think if you enjoy a lot of the more recent DnD media (Vox Machina and the like), you’d appreciate it.