[Excellence]

It started out all substance without special effects. Now it’s all special effects without substance.

[Bratch]

Modeled on Gulliver’s Travels

Mmm, no.

It was pitched to the networks as a "Wagon Train to the stars".

[CitizenUSA]

Star Trek simply became too preachy over the decades. Pushing social justice became more important than entertaining folks. Star Trek: Enterprise, the most recent Trek TV series, squandered a great opportunity to return to the show’s roots. They should have went retro with the technology and scripts as the events of Enterprise were supposed to happen prior to the original series.

That said, at least they didn’t have Janeway—the worst captain in Trek history!

[Cincinatus]

. In “Return of the Archons,” for example, Kirk and company infiltrate a theocratic world monitored and dominated by the god Landru. The natives are placid, but theirs is the mindless placidity of cattle.

Sounds like Obama's America, ca. 2015.

[MrB]

The politics are irrelevant, because the technology allows for everyone to get all of their needs and wants created with little to no effort of their own.
Replicators. Unlimited free energy.

The only things subject to economies would be those items that were illegal.

You’d probably actually see a flourishing black market and slave trading.

[stinkerpot65]

Marxism.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Strange decline of American Liberalism since the Kennedy era?

Seems to me the Libs are more powerful than ever.

[calico_thompson]

bump

[VermiciousKnid]

Ping.

[sphinx]

for later

[Stand Watch Listen]

May the Force Live Long and Prosper!!!

[Timber Rattler]

Dorothy Catherine “D.C.” Fontana should be right up there with Asimov, Heinlein, Herbert, Clarke, etc. as one of the great science fiction writers of all time...

[Raymann]

Funny how the article completely ignores Deep Space Nine. Probably because it harkens back to the morality of classical realism.

Picard refuses to defend Gowron because it interfere in Klingon internal matters, Sisko helps assassinate a Romulan senator to trick the romulans into a war.

[ETL]

The one with the "space hippies" was the stupidest/funniest, though I'm sure it wasn't really meant to be funny. Star Trek was one of those series you laughed with, and at.

[KC_Lion]

Dancing on Roddenberry's Grave!

[Chgogal]

What about the new Star Trek movies with Chris Pine as Kirk?

[TexasFreeper2009]

A very interesting article, especially for Star Trek fans.

[Mad Dawgg]

[treetopsandroofs]

Bah, humbug.

A 4,700-word dissertation on STOS with the only reference to Nazis being "Conscience of the King"?!



And nothing about Chicago mobs, when its biggest mobster currently holds America by the throat?!

[Zionist Conspirator]

Gene Roddenberry was a secular humanist and the original "Star Trek" was quite anti-theistic. "The Apple" is in part an attack on G-d and a celebration of the serpent (at least the chrstian "luciferian" version).

As a non-theist neither Kirk nor anyone else in the stories has a standard by which to judge anything whatsoever as right or wrong. All non-theistic "standards" are in the end purely arbitrary.

That the old Roddenberry humanism turned into the current new age paganism is no coincidence.