That would be optimistic.
Wow. Made it one whole page before this topic shows up.
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Again, perspective. TOS would have been a utopia to Benny Russell.
Uhura was forced to kiss Kirk. That wasn't an example of advancement, it was assault.
Who said anything about drowning?I get what you're saying, but let us note that more is not always better.
"You know, that dash of tabasco sauce really adds something to this dish. So next time let's positively drown it in tabasco sauce until you can't taste anything else. And insist that it must always be served with super-duper-amounts of tabasco sauce from now on."
Obviously. But that wasn’t the controversial part, historically, was it? It was the fact that this tv showed dared to play at having them kiss.
Utopia: ideas so good they have to be forced.
There is an argument that could be made, based upon life expectancy, access to potable water, medicine among other factors.
Maybe even 1920 !
Perhaps there is some argument to be made that there are usages of "utopia" and "utopian" that reflect simply improvement. However, they are weakening the meaning significantly, such as using "fantastic" is "great" rather than "imaginative" or "of fantasy." The more it is used this way, the weakerthe word becomes to the point that anything better is utopian.
I don’t think of utopian merely to be some progress. By that metric, the latest iPhone is from utopia compared to the last one, or first one. But I do think that it makes sense that when you’re talking about three or four centuries hence, with a people that maybe have made a thousand years of at least technological progress in some ways in that time, then similar levels of social progress might seem utopian to us. I get the sense that we see a sliver of future society in our episodes and the future can be as freaky and out there as future writers dare do go, or need to. I.e. the use of holograms in an age where everyone’s iPhone seems way more sophisticated than a lot of Trek tech.
