Ten reasons why we love Stark Trek
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- Because it basically embodies everything what we now consider as “politically correct” but at a time where those values spoke for madness. The series was a real cultural shock, they showed what at that time was nothing but unthinkable: gay couples, women and black people at the chain of command. They are responsible for the first kiss between a white woman and a black man shown on TV. They would have definitely been on board with the Me-too movement.
- They raised the idea of a inter-racial democratic society during the middle of the cold war, when to even think about such a thing was considered to betray your country (especially if you were American).
- It allowed us to imagine how life as “an inter-species experience” would look like.
- No science as a god! There is any scientific idea which was taken as a dogma. They are always open to embrace the constant development of their ideas.
- It is real intergenerational stuff. My mother was already a big fan of the series on a time when I was not even born, and here I am now, watching the new season and probably my kids will still be watching the new outcomes on the next decade.
- They live constantly travelling through the space and visiting new worlds and we all wish to do so.
- Because even though we still wondering about whether there are any other universes or forms of life than us, for them it was just too obvious!
- It’s hope in the future. On a time where everybody was fearing the end of the world under a nuclear war they were certain about our capacity to develop in a harmonic way that would bring us the possibility to constantly expand our horizons.
- The Enterprise and its best spacecraft design ever! Not to mention all the new technology that we got to know thanks to the series, such us: universal translator, tablet computers, tricorders, phaser (now known as dazzler) and many other things that at that time did not exist.
- We love Mr Spock, who doesn’t?