I was honestly more taken aback by the "In our century, we've learned not to fear words" bit. Meanwhile, in our currently reality: "WORDS ARE VIOLENCE, YOU NAZI!!"
That's kind of the problem. Star Trek is supposed to speak on a future a Liberal Utopia. But the Left were never Liberal. They were just using it as a skin suit for further attacks and subversions.
Although, I was watching a video recently from a review of Star Trek: Picard that made an interesting observation about the nature of both Star Wars and Star Trek in current culture and what has become of them.
The TLDR being that Star Wars exist within the "Constrained"/"Tragic" view of Human Nature, while Star Trek exist within the "Unconstrained"/"Anointed" view of Human Nature. Both started out with fairly hopeful messages, as both views of human nature usually do.
As Star Wars was subverted though, many of its fans, in keeping with a tragic view, began to adapt so that they would not allow their enjoyment to be ruined, and Star Wars has even seen individuals in key positions attempting to subvert the Subverters, which while perhaps not the intention does map toward the idea of decentralized local control the Constrained say will serve people the best.
Star Trek on the other hand has followed the all too typical route of the Anointed, where when they attempt to bring forth their utopia, and they find the ignorant Plebeians refuse to listen to their betters, they begin to lose the hopefulness in favor of bitterness, misanthropy, and nihilism as they seek to purge all those who will constrain their vision, until there is literally nothing left and they are retconning their own work to make it just as hateful and bitter as they are now, destroying everything they ever worked for. Because, you mindless ape, dont deserve utopia if you are going to resist my will!
Perhaps reading a bit too much into the nature of what is happening, I just thought it was interesting.
I haven't seen Picard, but I wouldn't be surprised if that were the case.
The issue with Star Trek that I noticed is that it's entire social and philosophical system only works in a military framework. Note that there's no Star Trek series about just living in the Star Trek universe. It only takes place aboard naval vessels.
To be honest, this is because Star Trek is founded under, not a Boomer truth regime, but a Greatest Generation truth regime. The military are the vanguard of liberal philosophy, the height of meritocracy, the collectivist defenders of individualism, they are absolutely compliant to law & civilian political order, and they maintain a morally strict social order.
These things are not inherently true of any military, but they are the perceived truth of the generation of Americans who decided that they had to go to war to save the world from collectivism, and preserve the individual rights of everyone on Earth. Meaning that (even though they weren't in real life) they wanted to be that perfect vangaurd of Liberal thought. Star Trek is that aspiration.
Now this means that Starfleet is of the "anointed" class, but are inherently constrained. Yes, they are moral prefects, but they are moral prefects operating in a fallen world attempting to re-moralize it through inspiration. Even more than that, they know that they themselves are not perfect and must desperately seek to live up to that anointment.
Take this example: one of the most famous Wesley-Picard interactions of all time: "A Lie of Omission". Think about what made Picard so furious: a lie of omission, and one to a legal inquiry, to investigate the death of one of Wesley's fellows. Here's the big quote in particular:
The first duty of every Starfleet officer is to the truth! Whether it's scientific truth, historical truth, or personal truth! It is the guiding principle on which Starfleet is based. If you can't find it within yourself to stand up and tell the truth about what happened; you don't deserve to wear that uniform.
Not the Federation. No, hell no, civilians can lie all the fucking time. Wesley betrayed that Uniform. Starfleet's uniform. The anointed, not elected, pinnacle of morality and vanguard of the Federation's Liberal philosophy. And because it's liberal, they are still voluntary. You can choose to leave Starfleet. You can refuse to be part of the Federation. You don't have to listen. They are a vanguard and not conquerors. What Start Trek has since become is likely what has happened to many on the Left: they are tired of being a vanguard and now want to be rulers.
Honestly, they actually made Lincoln far less racist than he actually was. Lincoln certainly wouldn't have apologized.
She was indeed a charming negress.
I was honestly more taken aback by the "In our century, we've learned not to fear words" bit. Meanwhile, in our currently reality: "WORDS ARE VIOLENCE, YOU NAZI!!"
That's kind of the problem. Star Trek is supposed to speak on a future a Liberal Utopia. But the Left were never Liberal. They were just using it as a skin suit for further attacks and subversions.
Although, I was watching a video recently from a review of Star Trek: Picard that made an interesting observation about the nature of both Star Wars and Star Trek in current culture and what has become of them.
The TLDR being that Star Wars exist within the "Constrained"/"Tragic" view of Human Nature, while Star Trek exist within the "Unconstrained"/"Anointed" view of Human Nature. Both started out with fairly hopeful messages, as both views of human nature usually do.
As Star Wars was subverted though, many of its fans, in keeping with a tragic view, began to adapt so that they would not allow their enjoyment to be ruined, and Star Wars has even seen individuals in key positions attempting to subvert the Subverters, which while perhaps not the intention does map toward the idea of decentralized local control the Constrained say will serve people the best.
Star Trek on the other hand has followed the all too typical route of the Anointed, where when they attempt to bring forth their utopia, and they find the ignorant Plebeians refuse to listen to their betters, they begin to lose the hopefulness in favor of bitterness, misanthropy, and nihilism as they seek to purge all those who will constrain their vision, until there is literally nothing left and they are retconning their own work to make it just as hateful and bitter as they are now, destroying everything they ever worked for. Because, you mindless ape, dont deserve utopia if you are going to resist my will!
Perhaps reading a bit too much into the nature of what is happening, I just thought it was interesting.
I haven't seen Picard, but I wouldn't be surprised if that were the case.
The issue with Star Trek that I noticed is that it's entire social and philosophical system only works in a military framework. Note that there's no Star Trek series about just living in the Star Trek universe. It only takes place aboard naval vessels.
To be honest, this is because Star Trek is founded under, not a Boomer truth regime, but a Greatest Generation truth regime. The military are the vanguard of liberal philosophy, the height of meritocracy, the collectivist defenders of individualism, they are absolutely compliant to law & civilian political order, and they maintain a morally strict social order.
These things are not inherently true of any military, but they are the perceived truth of the generation of Americans who decided that they had to go to war to save the world from collectivism, and preserve the individual rights of everyone on Earth. Meaning that (even though they weren't in real life) they wanted to be that perfect vangaurd of Liberal thought. Star Trek is that aspiration.
Now this means that Starfleet is of the "anointed" class, but are inherently constrained. Yes, they are moral prefects, but they are moral prefects operating in a fallen world attempting to re-moralize it through inspiration. Even more than that, they know that they themselves are not perfect and must desperately seek to live up to that anointment.
Take this example: one of the most famous Wesley-Picard interactions of all time: "A Lie of Omission". Think about what made Picard so furious: a lie of omission, and one to a legal inquiry, to investigate the death of one of Wesley's fellows. Here's the big quote in particular:
Not the Federation. No, hell no, civilians can lie all the fucking time. Wesley betrayed that Uniform. Starfleet's uniform. The anointed, not elected, pinnacle of morality and vanguard of the Federation's Liberal philosophy. And because it's liberal, they are still voluntary. You can choose to leave Starfleet. You can refuse to be part of the Federation. You don't have to listen. They are a vanguard and not conquerors. What Start Trek has since become is likely what has happened to many on the Left: they are tired of being a vanguard and now want to be rulers.