Freep Trek

I'm a Trekie since high school. Trek keeps an optimistic 1960's technological Utopian mindset that you just don't see these days.

So after the Enterprise going to Libya thread of yesterday, I was reminded of this rather liberal-seeming show, and looked up what Freepers think of The Old Series - the 1960s show. For the most part they like it. Or at least, parts of it - carefully chosen parts.

dragonblustar remembers Star Trek's bold stand against the Nazis.

I remember the original Star Trek also dealt with Fascism. There was an episode where a friend of Kirk went down to a planet and tried to use the so called “good aspects of the Third Reich” to a primitive planet only to find that it went the same ways as Hitler’s Germany.

C19fan only liked the big space fights in TNG.

The only thing interesting about TNG was the Borg and Klingons the rest was leftist crap.

C19fan has another memory he liked - where civilians are potrayed as the wimpy idiots they are!

I liked the episode when they had those dissatisifed Federation citizens sabotating the weather system on that hedonistic planet Risa and how the visitors acted like those British sailors hijacked by the Iranians starting to whine about not having their pleasures.

DaxtonBrown likes the tough guys:

I’m a Trekkie despite the humanism. Captain Kirk and Warf were favorites because they bucked the milksop humanism.

montag813 remembers another episode where Star Trek really stuck it to Obama:

There are no religious connotations to "Landru" in that episode. Watch it. It reminds one almost precisely of the cult of personality you see with a Hugo Chavez or Castro, or more disturbingly--of Obama. It reads as a warning against mindless totalitarianism.