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