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TigerTycoon posted...

This is from the supposed advanced humans who had rid themselves of discrimination

A lot of Star Trek falls into the "Methinks thou doth protest too much" sort of vein, even based on the standards of the time period it was made (rather than trying to judge it by the moral standards of decades later).

Like, they'll talk up how they're completely beyond prejudice or how they've totally done away with greed and money, but then you'll see a later episode where they're totally doing that thing they previously condemned as being primitive or something they've "moved past as a culture".

Again, it's what makes it so easy to recontextualize a lot of the "The Federation is so advanced and enlightened!" talk into ideological propaganda. They're really hypocritical way too often.



And that's not even getting into the thing that a lot of other people point out - namely, that it sometimes seems like literally no one in the Federation has advanced art or culture at all for the last few hundred years, with all the art and music or classic literature they ever talk about being stuff that's at least a hundred years or so old to us. About the most "modern" thing we ever see anyone ever engage in in the holodeck is on Voyager, where Paris is doing his 1930s sci-fi space opera thing, or Picard doing his whole film noir detective stuff. Everyone else seems to go back even farther (Sherlock Holmes, Shakespeare, Robin Hood), and most music seems to be older classical. We never get to see a 2400 AD version of Lady Gaga or The Weekend.
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