The writers for that show believe the same things as our Betters who make these plans, so it's not surprising when there's overlap between fact and fiction.
I realized the alien thing was bullshit when the head of Israeli NASA said there was a galactic federation that was leaving us alone because of nukes and violence. Not only is that straight out of SG-1 and other SciFi, keeping the unholy xeno away from us is exactly why we should keep the nukes.
DS9 has aged the best, but TNG will always be my favorite.
And Q is my favorite character, because he is to the Federation what the Federation is to all the other civilizations; and they hate him for it. "Oh you think you're in a position to lecture others? Well I just came back from my visit to this ancient civilization whose ruins you are excavating, and I think later I'll take a stroll on the surface of this star the planet's orbiting."
One of the premises of Star Trek is that after First Contact humans became a lot more open to the idea of globohomo society. Perhaps to that end?
The writers for that show believe the same things as our Betters who make these plans, so it's not surprising when there's overlap between fact and fiction.
I realized the alien thing was bullshit when the head of Israeli NASA said there was a galactic federation that was leaving us alone because of nukes and violence. Not only is that straight out of SG-1 and other SciFi, keeping the unholy xeno away from us is exactly why we should keep the nukes.
Suffer not the heretic, mutant or xeno to live.
DS9 has aged the best, but TNG will always be my favorite.
And Q is my favorite character, because he is to the Federation what the Federation is to all the other civilizations; and they hate him for it. "Oh you think you're in a position to lecture others? Well I just came back from my visit to this ancient civilization whose ruins you are excavating, and I think later I'll take a stroll on the surface of this star the planet's orbiting."