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>While I love sci-fi featuring white male protagonists It's interesting that Star Trek was actually quite progressive: >Beyond Star Trek's fictional innovatio
by jere 13y ago
>While I love sci-fi featuring white male protagonists
It's interesting that Star Trek was actually quite progressive:
>Beyond Star Trek's fictional innovations, its contributions to TV history included a multicultural and multiracial cast. While more common in subsequent years, in the 1960s it was controversial to feature an Enterprise crew that included a Japanese helmsman, a Russian navigator, a black female communications officer, and a Vulcan-Terran first officer.
You would expect a little bit more now. The latest Star Trek film is basically about two white dudes battling two other white dudes plus "hey let's find an excuse to get this blonde chick in her underwear."
- pushinglimits 13y agoYes much of what made star trek interesting was how every week it would present some interesting cultural challenge. They were always stumbling into odd parallel societies, often rational but different in an interesting way, and more often than not they would escape a difficult situation by applying moral principles (e.g. the prime directive). I'd love to see more of this adapted to challenge the modern mainstream. Why can't we have an openly gay muslim chinese captain and his southern white baptist communications officer all journey to some previously unexplored world of H1B immigrants who modeled their society based on the works of Ann Rand?
- some_googler 13y agoMuslim? Baptist? If there's one thing that SF always got right, is getting rid of religion, projecting a future of increasing secularism/agnosticism. Star Trek is a good example, Gene Roddenberry was an atheist and he made ST as much agnostic/atheistic as he could get away with.