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Funny you talk about the Starship Enterprise... Star Trek is super political lol
by KittenInABox 2y ago
Funny you talk about the Starship Enterprise... Star Trek is super political lol
- swayvil 2y agoAnd it stinks when they go that way. TOS went there a little. STD goes there all day.
- mpalmer 2y agoTOS went way further than you give it credit for. Different things were controversial and "of-the-moment" when the original aired.
- KittenInABox 2y agoThey've been super political since season 1??
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- havblue 2y agoI think it's reductive to say it's political. Trek at its best asks philosophical questions and explores the arguments. At its worst there's the "warp travel causes pollution, let's implement a speed limit" episode. Sure, you can reduce the Cardassians to being bad mid century Europeans. But you can also think of them as ruthlessly following the standards of utilitarianism. (Also bad) Saying it's just politics is lazy.
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- jowea 2y agoI guess it depends on the episode, and I do prefer when it's more abstract, but when do you think it's political if indirectly advocating for example gay rights or environmental protections isn't?
- havblue 2y agoI wouldn't say it's about any particular issue. It's whether they have an interesting dialectic or whether issues are painted as right versus wrong with little room for interpretation.