• folaht@lemmy.ml
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    16 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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      15 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.