Posted on 12/13/2010 3:32:23 AM PST by Walter Scott Hudson
Science fiction affords storytellers the opportunity to couch political ideas within fantastic metaphors. In this way, ideas can be explored which might otherwise seem objectionable. In some cases, an audience might not consciously realize they are being influenced to think a certain way.
Perhaps the greatest example of science fiction writing which has pushed a particular ideology upon the popular culture is Star Trek. Over the course of nearly five decades, the brand has expanded from televisions series into feature films, countless books, fan conventions, and mounts of merchandise.
Why has Star Trek been so popular? Creator Gene Roddenberry attributed the original series' success to the philosophy it espoused.
The whole show was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but to take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms. We tried to say that the worst possible thing that can happen to all of us is for the future to somehow press us into a common mould, where we begin to act and talk and look and think alike. If we cannot learn to actually enjoy those small differences, take a positive delight in those small differences between our own kind, here on this planet, then we do not deserve to go out into space and meet the diversity that is almost certainly out there. And I think that this is what people responded to.
Ironically, this multicultural meme leads to a self-fulfilling prophecy. Tolerating every idea enables ideas which are destructive. As the franchise has progressed, it has (perhaps unwittingly) demonstrated this flaw in its own message.
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Fine but the Democrats are the Borg invasion.
Fine but the Democrats are the Borg invasion.
You really mean: The Left are the Borg invasion. Don’t make exceptions for: socialists, communists, dictators, and RINOS.
Even in the history of STTOS, a botched first contact with a "different" alien culture led to a huge war - with the Klingon empire.
Bookmarked.
Resistance is futile.
Your life, as it has been, is over.
From this time forward, you will service us.
you forgot !slam
http://www.stardestroyer.net/Empire/Essays/Trek-Marxism.html
Economics of Star Trek, TOS capitalist, TNG Marxist.
NO ONE celebrated diversity like Kirk!!!!
The left out “you can make computers blow themsevles up by arguing with them.” (Though when I try that with my H-P, I just get hoarse).
I used to get so aggravated at ST:TNG.
Picard and the Enterprise were on their way to some galactic war or major conflict, but a crappy PC episode intervened and interrupted their journey.
They seldom ever got to anything really exciting.
Ping!
Or to quote something else I once read: “They divide humanity into cowboys and cows. You are not a cowboy.”
LOL
All I know is - if you wear a red shirt, you are dooooooomed.
IE Security are disposable.
No thanks to that ‘future’.
One thing that Captain Kirk cannot abide, is a passive, Utopia.
Kirk was only imitating Laz.
And he failed.
Laz would have hit the Gorn.
LOL
Thanks for the link and laff
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