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The Politics of Star Trek
smitty_one_each writes: Timothy Sandefur, a lawyer at the Pacific Legal Foundation has written a breezy overview of the politics of the little-known show Star Trek. His thesis: "...the key to Star Trek's longevity and cultural penetration was its seriousness of purpose, originally inspired by creator Gene Roddenberry's science fiction vision. Modeled on Gulliver's Travels, the series was meant as an opportunity for social commentary, and it succeeded ingeniously, with episodes scripted by some of the era's finest science fiction writers. Yet the development of Star Trek's moral and political tone over 50 years also traces the strange decline of American liberalism since the Kennedy era." The article traces through episodes at each phase of the franchise, exploring literary allusions and lamenting that "Star Trek's latest iterations — the 'reboot' films directed by J.J. Abrams — shrug at the franchise's former philosophical depth."
Reading this post demonstrates Americans have absolutely no idea what socialism is.
No, it's the left who have no idea what socialism is.
In Star Trek those people just go off and start a colony of their own and don't actively interfere in the day-to-day running of the Federation. I'm sure if we had FTL there would already be multiple "True Believer" colonies for people like Kim Davis to go to so she could live out her chosen lifestyle with a bunch of other people who feel the same. Not that this would really escape homosexuality, as it is triggered by mostly unknown environmental and genetic elements and is a general option amongst all sexually reproducing species that we've studied enough so far. When there is almost 1,500 animal species that exhibit various aspects of pansexualism it's very obvious this is some type of lower level function than a "conscious choice" or other religious nonsense. It might take awhile on another colony to feel the population pressure for homosexuality to be triggered...but that too is just another theory and honestly we just don't know.