#and interfering with and/or destroying peaceful arrangements bc jim kirk thinks they aren't developing fast enough | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

knittinglizards · 1 year ago

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poking around looking at people's general feelings about the recent trek series and I have to say im pretty deeply irritated by criticism that starts and stops at the idea that stories going further in depth into starfleet as an imperial power and the violence inherent to that are against the spirit of the original. like if you consider the idealism/hope for a better world/realization of a brotherhood of man sort of themes to BE the spirit of it, i would think engaging critically with elements of domination presented by the original is more productive (possibly even more faithful) towards that spirit than just pretending they don't exist

#p #star trek #idk maybe the way they go about it isn't very good! i have not seen them! but taking issue with just making the fleet look bad is a bit much #if YOU take the claims of utopia at face value and don't take issue w them rating cultures on a development scale #and CONSTANTLY using soft force to get people to agree to starfleet extracting natural resources #and interfering with and/or destroying peaceful arrangements bc jim kirk thinks they aren't developing fast enough #then i dont particularly want to hear anything else you have to say tbh

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