Comments on: The Politics of Star Trek https://www.isegoria.net/2015/09/the-politics-of-star-trek/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Sun, 14 Jun 2026 19:08:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Space Nookie https://www.isegoria.net/2015/09/the-politics-of-star-trek/comment-page-1/#comment-2387457 Space Nookie Sun, 13 Sep 2015 05:07:55 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=38843#comment-2387457 Yeah, you’ve got to look at the scripts in their entirety, Kirk/Spock are there for the audience to identify with as they receive continuing moral education in advanced liberalism through a series of contrived situations. The Organian episode begins with a Kirk/Spock adventure but ends with the revelation that all peoples advance towards pacifism and total moral relativism, and that the Klingons and Federation are moral equals because both are insufficiently pacifistic. Landru clearly represents traditional religion and destroying the computer with a paradox mimics how atheists see themselves battling Christianity with logical argumentation. Even the episode where Kirk gives a spirited reading of the US constitution is a veiled allegory for Vietnam; the bad captain (US) intervenes on behalf of the Comes (South Vietnam) against the Yangs (V.C.), and kills thousands with his superior weapons, but eventually he fails and Kirk discovers the Yangs are freedom fighters and the “Real Americans”.

]]> By: Ashv https://www.isegoria.net/2015/09/the-politics-of-star-trek/comment-page-1/#comment-2386621 Ashv Sat, 12 Sep 2015 01:26:07 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=38843#comment-2386621 Later iterations of the franchise took this seriously and made fun of it, by turns.

]]> By: AAB https://www.isegoria.net/2015/09/the-politics-of-star-trek/comment-page-1/#comment-2386131 AAB Fri, 11 Sep 2015 13:05:53 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=38843#comment-2386131 The early Star Trek episodes are a re-telling of the Garden of Eden story. Captain Kirk plays the role of the snake, who introduces cunning, sentience and consequently death into the world. The ignorant people play the role of Adam and Eve, who are ignorant, sexless, un-creative, docile creatures. And a tyrant plays the role of Jehovah, or the Demiurge if you’re a Gnostic.

The fact that Captain Kirk, the Snake, is shown as the good guy, and Jehovah is shown as the bad guy is evidence enough that the basic plot is Gnostic, or anti-Christian if you like.

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