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‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Is a Ratings Disaster Amid ‘First Ever Gay Klingon’ in a Dress, Teases Queer Love Triangle Plot
Breitbart ^ | 2-23-26 | Warner Todd Huston

Posted on 02/23/2026 12:57:04 PM PST by dynachrome

Paramout+’s struggling new Star Trek series, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, has been unable to crack the top ten shows in the Nielsen Ratings as the eight-figure per episode series wallows in a constant stream of left-wing, identity politics like gay Klingons, bisexuals, lesbians, and girl boss characters irks fans the world over.

The most recent plot rankling longtime fans of the franchise is the full-fledged gay Klingon character named “Ja-Den.”

Ja-Den, portrayed by gay actor Karim Diane, breaks the Star Trek mold for the 60-year-old franchise’s war-like, aggressive Klingon alien race. Instead of being a warrior, Ja-Den is a vegan and a bird watcher who had two dads. And when he gets to the academy, he immediately begins dating a young human male he meets there. But, wait, there’s more. Ja-Den also has secret feelings for one of the other male students in the series

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Humor; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: gaytrek; homosexualagenda; klingonhomo; paramout; startrek; warnertoddhuston
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Solid gold there.
1 posted on 02/23/2026 12:57:04 PM PST by dynachrome
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To: dynachrome

What’s wrong with these people? Way to permanently destroy the brand.


2 posted on 02/23/2026 12:58:38 PM PST by Made In The USA (One and Two and Three and Four and)
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To: Made In The USA

It’s been destroyed for years. This is just desecration of the corpse.


3 posted on 02/23/2026 1:01:55 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: dynachrome

It looked like an amateurish disaster before we even knew there was a gay character.

These folks never lear...


4 posted on 02/23/2026 1:02:04 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: dynachrome

Gay Klingon named Ja-Den. Reckon that’s a reference to Will Smith’s son Jaden, who can’t figure out if he’s a girl or a boy?


5 posted on 02/23/2026 1:02:45 PM PST by MikelTackNailer (Visualize whirled peas.)
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To: dynachrome

A bird watching Klingon?? You can’t be serious.


6 posted on 02/23/2026 1:02:52 PM PST by ealgeone
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To: dynachrome
"Space. The final frontier...where no man klingon has gone before!"
7 posted on 02/23/2026 1:03:05 PM PST by know.your.why
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To: Jamestown1630

This sounds worse than Star Trek Discovery, with the “Black Space Jesus.”


8 posted on 02/23/2026 1:04:35 PM PST by Fai Mao ( )
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To: Tijeras_Slim
This is just desecration of the corpse.

Apt description.
9 posted on 02/23/2026 1:05:21 PM PST by larrytown (I will not be rage-baited.)
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To: dynachrome

when I saw the first trailer for the show, I thought it was an AI joke. I literally have no desire to see one second of any of the Star Trek stuff anymore, or Star Wars. I used to love Star Trek in Star Wars when I was a kid. George Lucas wrote Star Wars back then, and Gene Roddenberry wrote the Star Trek episodes. Now, the shows are written by the denizens of the Cantina from the original Star Wars


10 posted on 02/23/2026 1:07:49 PM PST by MarlonRando
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To: dynachrome

11 posted on 02/23/2026 1:08:32 PM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: dynachrome

This is like one of the early Woody Allen comedy movies.

“””franchise’s war-like, aggressive Klingon alien race. Instead of being a warrior, Ja-Den is a vegan and a bird watcher who had two dads. And when he gets to the academy, he immediately begins dating a young human male he meets there.”””


12 posted on 02/23/2026 1:09:10 PM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Fai Mao

I never watched DS nine, I watched a few minutes of the first enterprise, I never watched Babylon 5 or discovery or any of that nonsense.So, explain the black space Jesus


13 posted on 02/23/2026 1:09:54 PM PST by MarlonRando
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To: Made In The USA
What’s wrong with these people? Way to permanently destroy the brand.

Destroy the brand? That is the brand.

Star Trek 'Enterprise' had a pregnant male:



And these transvestites were from 'The Next Generation', forty years ago.




14 posted on 02/23/2026 1:11:03 PM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: dynachrome
Wowzers.

check out https://www.startrekcontinues.com/ instead

it is actually good.

or if you can find it Blake's 7 (just skip the first episode, you can watch it after you finish the series)


15 posted on 02/23/2026 1:12:30 PM PST by algore ( )
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To: dynachrome

16 posted on 02/23/2026 1:13:06 PM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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Starfleet Academy - This Show Is Pure Torture
17 posted on 02/23/2026 1:13:26 PM PST by Rummyfan (Ok In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support lthe civilized man.👨 so t tv)
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To: Fai Mao

Female black space Jesus who is Spoks step sister and amazingly smarter and more perfect than Spock in every way.

With fatties in uniform. So much for it being an elite pseudo military academy.

I watched a few shows when I had the flu, mainly bc it was pathetic.


18 posted on 02/23/2026 1:14:05 PM PST by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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To: Jamestown1630
Maybe CBS/Paramount is working on a reboot of the original series to make Chekov a pre-teen "partner" of Kirk, while Bones examines the STDs of straight couples, and Spock waxes eloquently on all the violence committed by illogical Christian nationalists.


19 posted on 02/23/2026 1:14:12 PM PST by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: dynachrome

Strange that someone in Hollywood doesn’t by now realize that these woke TV series and movies do not play to the audience of normal people and will be box office bombs. Yet it keeps happing again and again.


20 posted on 02/23/2026 1:14:46 PM PST by The Great RJ
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