The horrible morals of a show supposed to teach them - Lemmy.World
I’ve been watching the various Star Trek shows for a while now, and while not
finished I saw most of them, I believe. And I cannot shake off the feeling that
the messages given by these shows, especially (and almost exclusively) recent
ones are pushing horrible morals that most people seem to not care about. #
Slavery I posted before, in the middle of my watching of Enterprise, that the
show was supporting slavery because of the Cogenitor episode. Many comments
disagreed, some even saying that they don’t remember anything supporting slavery
at all in the show. That was before I watched more. The show contains a full
episode that is just about showing that: - Sex slaves are not only acceptable,
they’re “sexy” and cool and negotiating with slavers is a good thing - Sex
trafficking of individuals groomed since they are born into being sex slaves is
the fault of the victims for “seducing” men ??? How is this show not fine with
human trafficking at this point? Is all that you need to avoid controversy, to
paint the slaves in green? I still cannot comprehend the lack of reaction on
this show. Add to that the frequent crimes of war by Archer and you have a nice
cocktail of humanity’s finest horror. # Section 31 This is also something that
seems absurd to me. When it first appeared, it was already a gestapo/kgb-like
group that ignores the concept of democracy, laws, and justice - in other words
a horrible group - but its existence as a starfleet element was blurry. But with
modern shows, they keep on bringing it back, and directly saying that it is
supported by starfleet, and a good thing, or at least a necessary one. The thing
is that what made starfleet supposedly admirable was, if not every single
individual’s morals, the morality of their concept, their laws, their structure.
Having section 31 be condoned by starfleet transforms starfleet from “utopian
future of humanity” (which it was supposed to be) to “dictatorship that pretends
to be a democracy but supports crimes of war and above-the-law groups”. In other
words, it destroys the concept of starfleet. # Discriminations, sexism, and
other shitty ideas, morals and behaviours Now this one is maybe more blurry and
subjective, but it is scattered all across, nonstop. Let’s start chronologically
## DS9 For this show, the constant misogyny is nothing hard to see. But they
still went out of their way to put some nasty things here and there. The episode
with Quark “becoming” a woman was interesting. Quark discovers a different point
of view, gains insight and empathy, that’s nice! Until the end of the episode
directly says “no nevermind, he was like that because of hormones, and was just
an overly emotional woman because of that”. Because after all, women are
hysterical, right? . Other than that, we have the toxic relationship between
Keiko and O’Brian, the toxic relationship between Dax and Worf, the toxic
relationship between Odo and Kira, the toxic relationship between Sisco and his
wife, Jake who constantly shows that when a teen boy is targeted by pedophiles,
the teen is both responsible for it, and liking it (one second, I need to throw
up in a corner), etc. And of course there is the rest, between Cisco crimes
against humanity, Bashir (that’s all I’ll say, nothing else needed), and the
weird pro-religious message that doesn’t make sense. ## Enterprise We already
talked about their view of child/human trafficking which I think gives the tone
of the show. But of course that’s not enough, so let’s put some sexual scenes
about the women in particular, rape scenes with TPol because who doesn’t like
rape culture, Malcolm “PoS” Reed talking like a creep about “bums”, Reed and
Tucker with their “haha lol, these alien women are ugly because you can’t tell
if they are women or not” and other toxic masculinity scenes, etc. Oh and I
almost forgot about the sex scene between teen siblings that serve no other
purpose than to show teens having incestuous sex. ## Picard What do we have
here, more weird sibling sexual scenes, people getting manipulated mentally and
sexually to extract information, murderers who get away with it because
betraying the federation and killing innocents is fine if you’re a scenario
character (reminds me of something else…AhemelnorAhem)… Oh, and I almost forgot
the amazing scene with a white Picard in his white British empire colonist
outfit, going on the planet of the tan refugees who hate the federation, kicks
everything around and tries to show that he’s the boss. I guess this show
regrets colonies too, huh. ## Discovery Now I didn’t finish this one yet, and
it’s hard. We have klingons that start off as a weird racist stereotype of
africans seen by colonialists from a century ago: black skin, tribal armors,
weird “foreign” language that the show intentionally refuses to translate
through the UT, and when they speak english it’s with a strong guttural accent.
And they’re barbaric, scary cannibals who fight with sticks and knives, and are
a bunch of disorganised tribes, with weird magic rituals that allow them to do
weird brainwashing. I’m almost surprised they don’t carry voodoo dolls while
dancing around a bonfire. The fact that people describe this show as “woke” is
funny to me. We have very explicit rape and gore torture scenes, for what
purpose, I don’t know. We have people forgiven of murder because it wasn’t their
mind, but then it is and everyone is fine with it. And then there’s more section
31 shit. There’s also the vision of asylum in this show that basically says “we
grant asylum whenever we want, not based on the situation but on personal
preferences”, with Georgiou granting asylum despite the prime directive, and
then Pike refusing asylum because of it. It’s surprising that starfleet would
allow that, but at least it’s not Archer-level, sending people to death then
blaming the ones who tried to help them. ## SNW As far as I remember, nothing as
bad as the rest here. The take on eugenics and “augmented” individuals is really
absurd though, showing starfleet hating on Una is fine because her species is
augmented (like the denobulans who are in starfleet though, no?), but the stupid
security officer who has DNA augmentations from a crazy evil dictator engineered
to be violent and crazy, is allowed without any issue. ## All of them One thing
that I struggle understanding is the constant of racist stereotypes. They’re
everywhere, because all the shows use them to define their characters. Keiko
wants to eat her traditional food in a kimono, Georgiou wears a big kimono-like
dress that would barely fit in a Mulan movie, Elnor is a ridiculous
samurai-ninja with the fitting outfit, etc. As if in hundreds of years, after
earth is united and mixed with hundreds of alien species, “cultures” would not
evolve and mix but instead go back to being very split apart and caricatural.
