Star Trek's Sci-Fi Politics - How Extreme Can Or Should You Or Go?
Has Star Trek Become Too Political? How Many Political Elements Added To The Sci-Fi Mix Become Too Much?
Star Trek always touches on the historic, sociological and political issues in exploring our human adventure into the far flung future. It's like a sci-fi mirror reflecting Earth's society at large. From the earliest days of the USS Enterprise jumping into warp, there’s always been a political dialogue surrounding the Hollywood franchise.
When Gene Roddenberry launched his Wagon Train To The Stars for NBC, it was 1966. A Vietnam War still raged violently and the Cold War proved far more than luke warm for years thereafter. In the original series, led by William Shatner as Captain Kirk, we got alien enemies in the combat oriented Klingons, who were patterned after communist Chinese and Russians. During both classic days and later TNG era, producers restrained themselves from using anything too on the money. They always worked generalities into the stories, never lifting too much off from an actual political reality.
Time travel happens even without access to a proper time machine. Has Starfleet’s and the United Federation Of Planet’s current political framework changed so much when compared to the times of Kirk, Spock and Bones?
Trekkies complain about too many obvious political connections within the new Paramount Plus shows. Many Trekkers even boycott modern Trek era incarnations such as Star Trek: Discovery. Today there seems to be more of a direct political target on specifics and focused groups. Let's discuss the more extreme, modern political landscape of Gene Roddenberry’s legacy of science fiction.
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