It would be nice if we actually lived like that.
Are the new Klingons supposed to be White Republicans?
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As much as I love alot of individual Alien characters throughout the Trek series, Alien cultures have always been pretty paper thin in Trek, usually centering around 1 trait or ideal.
Colin Powell has dignity.....the other two are literal brown noses.
That's a pretty definitive sounding statement about something that's largely a question of perspective. Omega Glory made the point very nicely that a stated philosophy can readily become divorced from the reality by using none other than the US constitution, how a people theoretically following a high ideal can nonetheless appear monstrous from another's point of view.
America as arbiters of "freedom" is far from a universally held belief or perspective and not without good reason, it certainly isn't equivalent to the Federation on anything more than the most superficial of levels and even there only really throughout TOS.
If the Federation represents anything it's a set of ideals which even it falls short of in practise, but those ideals are not those of the USA.
If the Federation is not the USA (which it really isn't) then the case falls down for casting the Klingons as the USSR (which they aren't), which in turn makes complaints about their alleged repurposing from that role pretty weak (in my view).
Exactly. It is idealism that can propel us forward in a way that may seem impossible, given the circumstances. But, bemoaning everybody's political opinions as "wrong" is about as productive.
I heard a quote once that went something like, "A man's reach should exceed his gasp or what's a heaven for?" That is a sense of idealism that I would like to see. The idea that, no the world isn't perfect, but there are things that individuals can do, and groups can do, to reach towards that "could be" world.
