Star Trek in recent years, in many years, has been destroyed. The people who control that franchise today have no talent, and even less idea of what Star Trek meant to several generations. That's okay. Nothing lasts forever, and they cannot destroy the stories that we love, even if they spend 100s of millions of dollars making stories that we despise.
One notable exception to the "Current Star Trek is awful" rule is a short, 11 minute film, 765874 - Unification. It manages to capture the essence of the original Star Trek with no dialog, and close out a couple of story lines that Paramount saw fit to bury. It is just shy of 11 minutes if you watch all of the credits. You won't find it by searching. I haven't seen why that is the case, but the consensus is that Paramount doesn't want it seen. It deserves to be seen.
How we deal with death is at least as important as how we deal with life.
This is the Critical Drinker's video Star Trek Unification - I'm Not Crying, You're Crying!I don't know whether you should watch the original or Drinker's take first. I think you should watch the original, but then I have seen both, multiple times.
It's a work that condenses down everything that I used to love about Star Trek into a dreamlike 10-minute sequence of Glorious visuals and perfectly balanced emotional impact, and conveys everything it needs to say and do without a single line of dialogue.
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