Well, you just sounded as if you did. But do you recognize that the Star Trek original series had liberal and conservative elements and that the current movie has a conservative ideology?
Some of the writers of some of the episodes of the original series certainly wrote some episodes that reflected Cold War rhetoric.
However the series overall depicted a fairly "radical" vision of an Anarcho-Socialist economic system blended with a strong Federal Republic Political system (Earth united into a Global Republic--the ultimate nightmare for Right Wing conspiracy theorists. Glenn Beck's head would explode. Hannity would have kittens. And Limbaugh would have an Apoplectic Fit and be hauled away in a strait jacket.
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And many episodes were blatantly anti-war. Not to mention the first inter-racial kiss on TV (for which Nichelle Nichols-Uhura-received a positive phone call from MLK).
Numerous episodes referred to the fact that there was no longer poverty on Earth, and that Currency had been abolished on Earth (that's an Anarchist principle).
An episode I recall in particular--the Cloud Minders--was a blatantly Marxist analysis of Class Warfare.
Then there's that whole Save the Whales thing.
And those skimpy outfits on the ladies, and the Green Chicks...Yowza!
Though despite some apparent sexism, the series was several steps forward from the Culturally Conservative values of the 50s. Hey man, it was the 60s...Free Love Yo!
Having seen the new movie numerous times I'm a bit at a loss.
In what way do you think it was "Conservative"?
(By the way, I don't necessarily conflate Conservatism with Right Wing--even though politically in the US and in a number of other countries they are functionally equivalent terms. It depends on the context. Example: my aesthetic tastes tend to be conservative much to the consternation of some of my "radical" friends).
GB
