Most Trekkers are Republicans, and Star Trek can take it or die
Most Trekkers are Republicans, and Star Trek can take it or die
By Joshua Tyler | Published: 2025-10-22 17:03:00 | Source: GIANT FREAKIN ROBOT
Written by Joshua Tyler | Updated
Star Trek has always had a specific audience, and has never had much appeal outside of that group. Now this group is hated by the franchise, and it does everything it can to keep them away.
To understand this problem, you first have to understand the demographics of Star Trek viewers. Journeys are and always will be men. Women don’t usually care about science fiction, but that’s doubly true for Star Trek in particular.
I hear you, random guy who once knew a lady who watched all of them Voyager episode. See you on Instagram, a cute girl in Starfleet miniskirts. Unfortunately, you gorgeous travel girls are the exception rather than the rule.
Females make up between five and ten percent of the Star Trek audience. This is great, but 5% is not enough to fuel the entire franchise.
If you think I’m belittling Trek views, scroll through the comments on any Star Trek related content anywhere on the internet. Then count the number of female commentators. You’ll see a lot of guys named Steve, but you won’t see a lot of Jennifer.
That Star Trek’s fan base is primarily male is clear and undeniable. Anyone who disagrees with the idea that the vast majority of Trek’s audience consists of nerdy men is probably selling something and shouldn’t be trusted.
What do male Star Trek fans care about?
Star Trek needs men. It does not exist without men. Therefore, it is important to ask what men care about.
To find out, we just have to act like Mr. Spock and look at the numbers. The following chart shows the political views of men compared to women in four different countries, over time.
The graph shows a wide and growing divide between the political leanings of men and women. Men are now, on average, very conservative and rapidly becoming more conservative.
You might think that only older men vote Republican, but you’d be wrong. For example, if you’ve seen photos of Democrats at recent “No Kings” protests, you’ve probably noticed that the vast majority of men in attendance were over the age of 60.
Younger men are just as likely to vote for Donald Trump in the recent election as older men. according to Pew ResearchMost men of all ages and most demographic groups voted Republican in the final 2024 political contest.
Polls conducted by organizations like Gallup on the more specific views of American men confirm this. 80% of men oppose trans women participating in girls’ sports. 80% of men also oppose restrictions on gun ownership. 60% of men polled by Gallup don’t think climate change is a big problem. 70% want stricter border controls, and most support mass deportations.
How Star Trek responded to the increasing conservatism of Trekkers
Pick any major political or cultural issue, and you’ll usually find polls showing that a vast majority of men hold the same positions as a Republican American president.
Meanwhile, Star Trek does this…
Voting in 2023, shortly before Star Trek: Discovery The episode that aired indicates that at the time, 64% of men believed there were only two sexes.
Isn’t Star Trek supposed to be counterculture?
In the past, Star Trek often explored ideas outside the realm of mainstream thought. For example, first officer Deep Space Nine He is a former terrorist, at a time when America was highly sensitive to terrorist violence. This worked for the show because although Keira’s past might seem severe and unacceptable to older male audience members, it appealed to young men willing to consider the consequences of living a life filled with violence.
Kira’s past as a terrorist is never glorified or endorsed, only explored. It allowed Trekkies with more flexible minds to look at the world from a point of view they had never seen before. This is what makes her relevant today but also timeless because nothing in Keira’s past is specific to the real world in which her character was written.
That’s not what Star Trek He does now. Pronoun culture is not a counterculture, and it is certainly not eternal. It’s the dominant moment and message in most mainstream entertainment. If you’re pressured to add pronouns to your LinkedIn profile, this is it.
Add a non-binary teen to Star Trek: Discovery Lecturing the audience about gender pronouns may have impressed a couple of older hippie boomers on their way to a No Kings protest, but it turned most men off.
The mistake people make when talking about this topic is to assume that Star Trek began with a progressive bent, just because it took into account liberal viewpoints. This is wrong. Star Trek was above liberalism, conservatism, and all kinds of doctrines. That was the point of the series, and why it has had such enduring and widespread appeal.
Early Journey would never have reduced itself to subscribing to any sort of limited set of modern ideologies. Instead, the beating heart of the series has been its willingness to explore ideas outside the mainstream, whatever they may be, and then let its audience decide for themselves whether those ideas are worth it.
Star Trek would not have remained relevant if it had been a progressive television show or a beacon of the counterculture, because what is mainstream and what is not, what is progressive and what is not, has always been a moving target. In the 1960s, interracial kissing was out of the mainstream. Now that it’s so mainstream, it’s no longer interesting.
If Star Trek had made an episode in which it lectured the audience about the importance of interracial mating, it would now be embarrassing and irrelevant. Trick was too smart for that. Or it used to be.
Modern Star Trek You choose a side, and it’s the same side your grandmother is on
Now, Star Trek seems to think that adopting the viewpoints shared by the late-night talk shows your grandmother watches is sexy rock ‘n’ roll. Whereas Trek once examined complex ideas outside the mainstream, it now demands that its audience adhere to ideas from the mainstream. Ideas that its primary audience, men, hate.
They have accelerated the strategy of alienating the male audience in the upcoming series Starfleet Academya sub-view of discovery. The new Star Trek series has commercials featuring Klingons wearing skirts, lectures on climate change, and plenty of current-year political jargon for the average Karen from CNN to absorb.
Propeller replacement theory in action
Most other modern series with a male audience have the same problem, and they’ve all tried to solve it not by making stories that reflect the values of modern men, but by trying to replace male viewers with female viewers who think the right thoughts.
It doesn’t work. It never happened, not even once. The best example of this is Star Wars, which has been obsessively focused on attracting female viewers for years now.
Despite focusing everything they do on female characters played by actresses with acceptable political views, as well as creating plots around lesbian witches killing off all their old characters, it’s still only men who care about Star Wars. All they have accomplished is to reduce the number of men willing to watch.
If you doubt it, use the social media comments quiz I just gave you to see who’s talking about Star Wars. You won’t find many women obsessed with Rotta the Hutt, although if you are, you’re awesome, and I want to be your best friend.
Star Trek is stuck with men
Star Wars has proven that you can’t convince women who share your politics to take over the viewing slots previously occupied by men. This means that Star Trek is stuck with males as the only important demographic while doing everything it can to make men hate it.
There is a logical way out of this mess that Trick himself has created, but Trick doesn’t seem inclined to accept it. This logical path does not mean turning Star Trek into a utopia with a conservative code, or appeasing male viewers by having Captain Pike suddenly turn Christian, as… Star Trek: Strange New Worlds I did recently. It means going back to basics and eschewing modern sensibilities in favor of exploring the basic fundamentals of the human spirit and creating a world based on a courageous, can-do attitude of exploration. It means rejecting modern “beliefs” entirely.
Unless Star Trek makes this change, and soon, she and everything like her will die. In the imminent future without Star Trek and other Hollywood sci-fi films, we’ll be stuck watching nothing but terrible sci-fi movies about the first Jesus like the recently released Apocalypse Homesteadproduced by Angel Films. As someone who grew up on the real Star Trek and was trained to be wary of joining groups, whether progressive, conservative, atheist, or religious, this is not an entertainment world I want to live in.
(tags for translation) Angel Films
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