It’s a sure sign to me of the culture of America over the past few decades.
People were a bit open to the idea of watching Star Trek in the 60s and 70s which is why the show even existed. There was a feeling of being more open and questioning of politics, futurism and society in the 90s with the Trek shows from that period with the stories and narratives they displayed for everyone to see.
Since then it has felt like a Trek fan is someone to ridicule or put down. As if the whole idea of Trek and the stories that were written are just fantasies and mean nothing and have no message or nothing important to share.
To me, that has always been what I liked about Trek … the fact that we could hold a mirror up to ourselves and look at the stupid things we did and look back on ourselves from a distant fictional future universe and think about what we will look like to those future generations. Everything we find so important and significant today means nothing to those people that will come after us. And if we do want to hold on to so many damned disgusting, terrible and backward things now … then there won’t be any future generation in the stars that will look back on us … instead, they will either not exist or they will inhabit caves and forests and remember us as a myth from the past.
It’s a sure sign to me of the culture of America over the past few decades.
People were a bit open to the idea of watching Star Trek in the 60s and 70s which is why the show even existed. There was a feeling of being more open and questioning of politics, futurism and society in the 90s with the Trek shows from that period with the stories and narratives they displayed for everyone to see.
Since then it has felt like a Trek fan is someone to ridicule or put down. As if the whole idea of Trek and the stories that were written are just fantasies and mean nothing and have no message or nothing important to share.
To me, that has always been what I liked about Trek … the fact that we could hold a mirror up to ourselves and look at the stupid things we did and look back on ourselves from a distant fictional future universe and think about what we will look like to those future generations. Everything we find so important and significant today means nothing to those people that will come after us. And if we do want to hold on to so many damned disgusting, terrible and backward things now … then there won’t be any future generation in the stars that will look back on us … instead, they will either not exist or they will inhabit caves and forests and remember us as a myth from the past.