• folaht@lemmy.ml
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    15 days ago

    Star Trek went from embracing pacifism while displaying the workings of a utopian world
    to embracing warmongering and displaying a miserable world.

    And I will criticize Deep Space Nine for having started this.

    But I guess it accurately reflects US culture
    influenced by the ideology of the Soviet Union from the 20th century,
    a “we can do socialism better than the Soviet Union” story,
    to the China-avoiding-capitalist-embracing culture of this century,
    where socialism is absent and a soft cyberpunk world embraced as inevitable.

    STD and Picard look more like Mass Effect than STOS or STNG.

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      14 days ago

      And I will criticize Deep Space Nine for having started this.

      i hated section31 when they first did it and some part of me still does; but it did a lot to flesh out the fully automated gay space communism fairy tale.

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    15 days ago

    But it shouldn’t be ham fisted like DISCO, it should be smart, changing minds is done in inches not miles. Yay for emotionally immature and insecure senior staff!

    Some of the best Star Trek is when you didn’t know that it was making a political statement and it was thoughtful and thought provoking.