"Bleeding Skies"

Being a science fiction fan isn't easy. For example making sense of the current crop of retro-Star Trek TV distortions. Basically like the first Star Trek both of these are "Cowboys, and Indians" our American Original Sin among the stars. Much as the Greeks, and others projected their destines onto the heavens.

However this time 'round the "Indians" are as well armed, and just as insanely territorial. Star Trek Prime were cautionary tales based on the then raging Cold War with it's many proxy conflicts. All leading to the potential of death of the Biosphere. 

This time with our two new contestants. We have a Race War, and Religious Jihad on an interstellar scale. This reflecting our current conflicts.

"Star Trek Discovery", and "Orville" are coming into focus as war movies. The Federation vs the Klingons in a racial/cultural conflict for dominance of the Alpha Quadrant. With "Orville" there's the making of a vast religious war by the "Trill" vs everybody else.

In both cases there's little hope for reason. So if these programs survive those that bother watching will be treated to a blood splattered sky. This so unlike Trek-prime which did eventually try reconciliations.

Neither of these offerings have even considered another path. The one put forward by the film "Arrival". Which I think may have been the first major first contact feature in which 'no one' that I noticed got killed. This despite, ( Spoilers!) the saber rattling an expolsion, and one shoot-out between soldiers in a mutiny.

It was a moving weird fascinating story about two sentient species trying to communicate. This despite a 'profound' difference in their view of existence. The purpose of this contact was benign, and far sighted.

A series based on this would be doomed because of our expectations of any stellar contact.  This because of what we know happened to Native peoples when confronted with hoards of greedy horny smelly guys with guns,...and lots of them.

So of course both of these interstellar contact TV series are potentially tales of genocide among the Stars. "Bleeding Skies" await us.