Star Trek is still boldly going where no show has gone before
HE aftershock of the Harvey Weinstein scandal was felt in some unexpected places, including the furthest reaches of Federation space. Several weeks after the studio boss was unmasked as a serial sexual criminal, Anthony Rapp, a relatively obscure actor starring on Star Trek: Discovery, went public with details of an unwanted sexual advance he’d received as a 14-year-old from a then 26-year-old Kevin Spacey, Netflix star and doyen of high-class acting.
This brought to a crashing end Spacey’s 30-year career. It also plunged Netflix’s cash-cow drama House of Cards into crisis (Spacey is gone but House of Cards is to return for one final season). Though the point seemed lost amid the calumny, Spacey’s overnight descent into ignominy was, along with everything else, supremely ironic. While Star Trek: Discovery originated on CBS in the United States, in the rest of the world it is carried by Netflix.
