Re: Is Star Trek Racist?
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You young whipper snappers amaze me with what you do not know. The origional ST was about a future where men and women were equals...
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Nope. Women were not equal in TOS. Women were specifically barred from being starship captains. The final episode of the series, Turnabout Intruder, deals with this.
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...we had discarded our hate of people that don't look like us
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Not true, either. Many crew members (sometimes for just one episode) had predjudices, particulary towards Spock.
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...and we all lived in peace and harmony still having to deal with issues that make us human.
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Except for the wars that were fought with the Romulans (prior to TOS) and Klingons (during TOS).
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I believe he meant that they had solved/put aside most of their inter-human differences. Why? Probably because they had aliens now which they could turn on. We still had prejudice, war, etc... It just wasn't against other humans anymore.
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