I once told my uncle, who is both a chud and a Trekkie, about how the show was actively fought against by segregated states like Alabama. Episodes that prominently featured Uhura would get censored or not shown at all, for instance.
My uncle replied that the show is still right wing, because segregation was left wing since Democrats supported it.
segregation was left wing since Democrats supported it
My favorite response to that is to ask which side still flies Confederate flags today and cries when Confederate statues get taken down.
So you are saying Joe Brandon was the most left wing president the US ever had?
willing my headcanon into the wider culture
The TV shows are all focused on Starfleet who should hypothetically be the most rightwing institution in the Federation. But their primary goals are research and diplomacy, not defense and rarely does anyone in Starfleet ever express a rightwing belief. If they do it’s typically just a militant belief that the fascist empires surronding the Federation shouldn’t be wholly trusted. And the idea that pushing humanity forward is a purely rightwing position is laughable.
Fucking tourists.
Can’t get Star Trek canceled so they try to assimilate it
Bunch of pale-ass Borg-looking motherfuckers
deleted by creator
expansionism
explain the prime directive…
not the own you’d think it is given the frequency it’s ignored
in TNG at least it’s not ignored that often and I think it’s still telling that it’s still this thing called The Prime Directive which guides them and each time they don’t follow it it’s a whole Thing and Picard is sent to a tribunal or smth
maybe not? I would think the fact that the dialectic over intervention/interference is so thoroughly explored means it can’t be inherently expansionist but idk I essentially skipped TOS
Neither Spock nor Leonard Nimoy were Christian.
Silly tankie, Spock quoted the Bible so obviously he believed in it. You would never quote a famous piece of ancient literature unless you believed every word in it was fact!
i don’t even watch star trek and i know this is wrong lol
expansionism
space exploration isn’t expansionism
manifest destiny
they just chat with the alien people and help solve their problems, they don’t like colonize them
human exceptionalism
isn’t one of them like a super smart alien guy? and another one is a robot or something? and don’t they have plot points sometimes where they fuck something up because of light human/federation chauvinism?
highest IQ winning out
kirk is the captain and he’s kind of a himbo
Spock acknowledges jesus christ
like as a historical figure? cos he did pretty certainly exist as a guy
These chuds are really barking up the wrong tree, Star Trek is a total repudiation of everything they believe in, as this clip so aptly demonstrates
chuds are stupid as hell so it all evens out
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
human exceptionalism of the best and brightest
Rightwingism is when smart people exist and work on spaceships
