[ SECRET POST #6632 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6632 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT - I think I'm in the same general age range as you, and I get where you're coming from. But there were different levels of MESSAGES being delivered for many of those episodes. The same episode might have a generic, "Killing people because you want to take their stuff is bad" message and a "We romanticize the European colonization of everywhere even though it was literal and cultural genocide. Spend some time ruminating on that." message. Ask conservative voters if they agree with the first message, and most of them will say yes. The second question will get a lot of yelling about woke.

And if you ask a room full of 4th graders what they think about that episode, I'm betting most of the answers are going to be closer to message 1 than message 2.

[(Anonymous)]

That's very fair -- the message (and the complexity of it) can read very differently to different people too. I was, perhaps inelegantly, trying to make the point that at some point many people *do* start seeing that Star Trek had a message...but your point is very valid too -- it's very possible I wasn't seeing the nuances of those messages when I was in middle school.

(I was born in 1978, and I was just starting middle school when they resolved the "Best of Both Worlds" cliffhanger.)