As a sci-fi nerd, I am going to watch it. I am counting the days when star trek comes back on TV... I would love to see a conservative libertarian crew...
Sounds like there is to class tension as part of the plot but that’s not really unexpected in a situation like this. Battlestar Galactica dealt with a lot of the same issues for the same reasons.
Society needs an upper class, its peons, and everyone in between.
I love science fiction but after seeing some previews I doubt I will watch it
It's the year 2266, the first year of the original Star Trek series. All Earth populations have undergone the demographic transition, i.e. achieved reasonable standards of living with associated levels of wages, education, empowerment of all sectors of society. Because of this the Earth's population has shrunk considerably, but is now stabilized because those remaining have strong instincts to bear children regardless of the net economic deficit.
The last major populations to undergo the demographic transition were all in Africa. So the vast majority of Earth's population is Black followed by Indian and Chinese.
People have never learned, and will never learn, the lessons of free markets. Between now and then the Earth experiences a number of recession and depressions. However, in 2266 the economy is going well and so there is enough excess money lying around to start a space program run by a highly subsidized group of NASA-like organizations from around the world.
Getting to be one of the first astronauts on-board requires technical skills and political intrigue. Only the most politically correct have a chance for a seat on board.
So basically a "true" Star Trek crew will be exactly like the politically correct crews of The Next Generation only mostly Black with a few Indians and Chinese.
They might have a token Caucasian aboard to keep the replicators operational.