Even given that Star Trek was like the ur-nuts fandom and its place within broader SFF fandom and fiction scenes made it culturally central to a huge number of authors and author-aspirants, this sentiment seems like the kind of absolutely Marvel-brained shit you’d never have seen before the 2010s.
God, I wish normies who wanted to be part of something big and dumb and universal and transcendent would just go back to the church
Like the ‘80s and '90s were all hyperventilating like “what if COMIC BOOK SUPERHEROES were the gods of a new pagan polytheism!?!” but the funny thing is the MCU is how a polytheist mythology would have to look in a mass culture unmediated by Classical elite rule, all painted in the broadest strokes for the broadest possible audience, subtle quality touches – even WITHIN the canon – largely unappreciated, and the richer takes on the subject once appreciated by a narrow elite washed out by lowest common denominator popularizations.
