• Whoopi Goldberg referred to as out Elon Musk and Stephen Miller for attacking Star Trek's new sequence.
• "These persons are bitching a few TV present," the Subsequent Era star mentioned on The View.
• Goldberg mentioned they shouldn't fear a few present being "woke" whereas "persons are being shot and killed."

Whoopi Goldberg has beamed up a passionate protection for her beloved Star Trek sequence amid assaults from political figures like Elon Musk and Stephen Miller.

The Oscar-winning actress — who portrayed Guinan on Star Trek: The Subsequent Era — referred to as Musk and Miller out on The View over "bitching a few TV present" following the boys's harsh criticism of the brand new franchise sequence Star Trek: Starfleet Academy amid chaotic social and political panorama in America.

"They're complaining that the present has gone woke," Goldberg, 70, mentioned of the pair, after Musk, 54, wrote on X that the physique forms of the present's solid indicated, to him, that "they banned Ozempic and LASIK sooner or later." White Home Deputy Chief of Workers, 40-year-old Miller, later mentioned on the identical web site that "it’s not too late for @paramountplus to avoid wasting the franchise" and referred to as for the platform to present "whole inventive management" to former star William Shatner.

Goldberg, a longtime supporter of Star Trek who even hosted a 2023 series reunion on The View, regarded into the digital camera on Wednesday's episode ofthe speak showto inform each Musk and Miller, "When you've by no means been asleep, you may't be woke."

"See, this was a present that was created with the concept folks from different planets would come and we’d all discover a method to exist collectively," Goldberg mentioned. "This was [creator Gene Roddenberry's] concept, this was his dream. While you watch Star Trek, that's what it exhibits you."

She then requested, "Why are you concentrating on a tv present when persons are being shot and killed, when persons are going hungry, when farmers are dropping their farms, children can't get meals in school? Why are you being attentive to this?"

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She estimated that it was a measure "to distract from all the things" that's happening in America.

"Please, do your job, and we actors and folks from outer house, we'll do ours," Goldberg mentioned, earlier than throwing the present to a industrial break because the viewers applauded her phrases.

Starfleet Academy star Gina Yashere, 51, additionally defended the present in current weeks, with the English performer saying in an interview on CNN's The Story Is With Elex Michaelson that"Star Trek has been woke from day one," and that "woke is an efficient phrase" that has "been given destructive connotations, however woke simply means you're awake and conscious of all the things that's happening on this planet round you."

Yashere added, "That's what Star Trek has all the time been about, so we're simply carrying on that legacy."

After Miller named 94-year-old Shatner immediately, the actor mocked the determine's earlier message in a prolonged response of his personal on X.

"I’m so on the identical web page with you @StephenM ! The truth that they haven’t treatment Hyperopia by the 32rd Century is an abysmal oversight on the writers! Additionally @paramountplus must up the finances as a result of I’m certain {that a} effectively oiled group like Starfleet within the distant future might afford a couple of pair of glasses for a minimum of this hyperopic bridge crew," Shatner wrote. "Do they move the glasses round whereas piloting the ship? Disgrace on the road producers! That’s what you meant, proper? I’m able to assume command of the sequence! Name me!"

The View airs weekdays on ABC.

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