• comrade_madoff@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 years ago

    Yo… There was a Star Trek episode that slightly sympathised with the heroes of the IRA and was removed live tv after the first airing. I want to see a pro Palestinian episode.

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    2 years ago

    Revolutionary politics has always been one of the pillars star trek stands on, so its been terrible to see how nutrek has gone full performative liberalism and commercialist and removed all the wholesome space communism.

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      2 years ago

      Would you sayit have started before though? I am admittedly not too versed in Trek things, but it often feels that the dip towards the more liberal (and less socialist) takes began in post-TNG era, with Voyager and DS9.

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        Not really. DS9 has a plot thread where O’Brien inspires Rom (a member of a hyper-capitalist species) to form a union and go on strike.

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      2 years ago

      Space Communism was a core of Star Trek. No worries of such nonsense, just exploration and technological advancement.

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      We will never see a Star Trek that’s allowed to go deep into their communist style society ever again. It would never be allowed. TNG even pushed some boundaries and I know of at least one conversation Data had that was edited out. It really is a shame cause I agree with you it would be great. Star Trek laid the foundation of me becoming a communist and I didn’t even realize it. I just didn’t actually understand what communism was back then cause propaganda.