Sunday, November 30, 2014

[tsgkelyx] Roddenberry enemy

Star Trek, by some accounts, has strayed from Gene Roddenberry's vision of a society that has grown past the divisions and strife that plague today's society (e.g., racism), instead depicting the protagonists acting similar to the same terrible people we are today.  Market forces could account for this: people like watching shows in which the characters are like themselves.

To highlight this, create a satire in which our favorite Star Trek characters encounter and defeat an enemy which does live up to the Roddenberry vision.  Perhaps our protagonists use some of our favorite vehicles of social divisions, e.g., racism, to motivate and inspire to fight harder and thus win.

Perhaps: The Borg are revealed not to have individuality extinguished.  They can be as individual as they want, anytime they want; they simply choose not to most of the time.  In situations in which individuality is warranted, perhaps when exploring a very large space of ideas in search of something, they harness individuality as well as any other race.  And in entertainment: the Borg have awesome entertainment, because individuality avoids harmful monotony.

Meanwhile, "individuality" as the Federation uses the term is revealed to be a euphemism for social divisions.

Or Founders and their Great Link.

Previously, Daleks as social commentary.

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