Actually hold on a fucking second, that doesn't make any sense.
Rick and Morty debuted in 2013, wouldn't Earth be wildly different after the Eugenics Wars of the 90s and before WWIII in the 2020s? Every depiction of the "modern day" in the star trek universe has been profoundly shitty, with like half of Earth living in smoggy homeless camp poverty and the other half killing each other over resources.
Where could people find the time to reeee for szechwan sauce?
The franchise's various forays into visiting currentyear are one of its original sins, as the standard "pick a random date 20-30 years forward from currentyear and say serious shit relevant to the story happened then" worldbuilding seeds being thrown around in TOS resulted in the timeline being hilariously fucked up come the VOY-ENT era when the next batch of "the cast visits currentyear" stories were being made.
The TOS examples and Movie IV were obviously not badly affected by it, aside from
Assignment Earth being a backdoor pilot of questionable quality. TNG managed to avoid currentyear visits entirely but had a couple people from currentyear wind up in the future to be contemptuously sneered at and smugly lectured by the cast on how
bad bad evil bad stupid bad they are for being Americans from the late 1980s, which while cringe as hell in and of itself wound up actually serving the wider story meta of the indolent and morally decadent federation becoming insufferably high off its own self declared perfection and thus utterly unprepared for the Borg Administered Buck Breaking they were about to receive, and DS9 managed to stay clear too.
VOY was the real fuckin sledgehammer to the timeline with that 90s era Sarah Silverman episode which ENT managed to compound with its own inept currentyear fumble, which combined were such a spanner in canon the extended universe writers had to concoct some batshit "uh....the eugenics war was actchully all done in sekrit and like the gulf war and yugoslav wars and stuff were part of it but nobody noticed." explainer because of how utterly the latter two shows fucked things up. After that we enter Nu-Trek and the only example I have unwillingly been made aware of is PIC season 2....which yeah I don't think needs further elaboration
I have one thing to praise however. Jason Issacs is the highlight of the whole thing. By far the best and most interesting character and he acts circles around the rest of the cast. It seems like whatever movie/TV show he is in he steals the show. He is trying his best, God bless him, but even he can’t save this one.
Ironically he was one of the loudest and most insufferable "EVERYONE WHO DOESNT LIKE THIS IS RAYSISS AND SEXISS AND ARE SCARED OF STUNNINGLY BRAVE LGBTQ MINORITIES AND STUFF" shills for the show, either due to his own personal faggotry or due to the unsubtle "get the half competent and popular white male actor(s) involved in the project to denounce the haters and call them stinky bigot nazis, while simpering over how amazing the insufferable shaniqua mongoloid we cast as the main character is" PR strategy dictated by consultants which was also seen with Ewan Macgregor white knighting the insufferable shaniqua mongoloid main character in
Kenobi and half the OG Lord of the Rings hobbits white knighting the insufferable shaniqua dwarf/jigaboo elf/ratface galadriel/nigger hobbit mongoloids in
LAWD DEM RAAAAAAAANGZ OF POWAAAAAAA when mass audience rejection and mockery became too loud to ignore
