Nolte: ‘Project Hail Mary’ Author Apologizes for Calling New ‘Star Trek’ Shows ‘Sh*t’

Last week, during a podcast appearance, the author of Project Hail Mary accurately described Paramount’s shitty Star Trek shows as “shit.”

Andy Weir wrote the novel that the hit movie Project Hail Mary is based on and dared to tell an inconvenient truth on the Critical Drinker Podcast.

Weir started out quoting someone who said, “All modern science fiction TV shows and movies have been heavily influenced by the original Star Trek — except for the current batch of Star Trek shows.”

Weir then added, “I’m Gen X, so my sci-fi was like original series Star Trek reruns and Lost in Space reruns. And there wasn’t really much in the way of [new] sci-fi that was airing — where people are off in space doing cool things — until we got to [Star Trek: The Next Generation].”

After host Will Jordan mentioned the just-canceled and much derided Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, Weir cheered on the news: “It’s gone, baby! It’s all