I'm perplexed by #andyweir's comments about #startrek. He's apologized, so he knows he was incorrect, but I'm simply surprised that Weir (a) thinks that he's not political and (b) doesn't think Trek is deeply political. Two of Weir's 3 books have a male protagonist (and, though I'm not sure it's stated explicitly, a white male protagonist). That is a creative choice, a potentially revealing one, even if it was not intentional. Creative choices and politics are closely intertwined.