Star Trek and the Attitude of the 60s Star Trek series has many episodes that have social commentary, making strong comments on sexism, improving race relations (racism), militarism, xenophobia and all other major issues during the 60s. By the time the first episode aired in 1966, Congress had passed numerous civil rights acts, the Voting Right Act in 1965 and the constitutional amendments outlawing poll taxes and other disfranchisement tactics. There are many illustrations in which Star Trek brings
Star Trek While Cold War tensions were growing in Europe and civil rights were causing upheaval in the United States, a new show was first airing on American televisions. The series took place in space, onboard a starship. Its creator, a World War II veteran and ex-policeman named Gene Roddenberry, had imagined a show that would go on capture the imagination of the world. Often describing his show as a “wagon train to the stars,” Roddenberry named his new creation “Star Trek.” From its humble
companies to create a franchise. The more the audience is familiar with a story, in a form of movies or TV shows, the more the audience wants to see the characters and the story again. Star Trek pushed the idea of a transmedia franchise pretty far: the Star Trek franchise has been building out the world of Star Trek across not only twelve feature films, but also a series of comics (first from the Marvel comic production, then by the DC comics company), an animated series, plenty of video games and
Star Trek’s great accomplishment was giving us a stage on which to answer our “what if” questions about the future of humanity and explore philosophical ideas in a modern framework. What happens after we reach utopia? What happens when we meet alien life? What does humanity do when it doesn’t have to do anything? According to Star Trek, it boldly goes for the sake of knowing what’s out there. Created in 1966, Star Trek was described by creator Gene Roddenberry as a “Wagon Train to the Stars.” One
In the Star Trek video, there are a couple relationships that come into play from start to finish. The relationship starts with two peoples that are beamed aboard the Enterprise. The two different sets of people are called the Ornarans, and the Breccians. The two Ornarans are named Tijon and Romas and they are both men, while the two Breccians are Sobi and Langor. Sobi is a man and Langor is a woman. At first, cargo is transported onto the ship and then the people are second to aboard. The Ornarans
The Star Trek television series was truly a groundbreaking show not just for its plot lines and ideological messages, but also for its revolutionary cast. Two of the main actors were Jewish, one main actor was a gay Asian, and of course, one was a black woman. Uhura was one of the first main black characters on a television show – and of course, her kiss with Kirk was the first interracial kiss ever on television. For a show in the 1960s, Star Trek broke many barriers across religious, racial, but
In the movie "Star Trek: The Voyage Home" Captain Kirk and company travel back to the twentieth century to save the world by saving the whales. The movie came out in 1986, and I was a 27 year old former Star Trek lover with a devotion to environmental issues. If you had asked me about whaling and a cultural exemption back then I know what my answer would have been: Tough Darts! Get a life you creeps. Killing a whale because of your culture? Too bad, so sad. While I personally still feel there
Star Trek: Into Darkness is a film with a multiplicity of moral themes and dilemmas, and it can be argued that each character adheres to a particular ethical theory. For Spock, the ethical theory adhered to is rule-based utilitarianism. Kirk seems to adhere to a care ethic. Khan, on the other hand, seems in many cases to be motivated by a combination of a misled form of retributivism, a form of psychological egoism, and a form of care ethics. In this paper, I will analyze the ramifications of these
The film I’m discussing is Star Trek: The Motion Picture. The film, which takes place in the 23rd century, is about the newly appointed Admiral Kirk and his crew taking back the Enterprise in order to stop a force that is threatening Earth. Although problematic with regards to gender issues, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, along with the original television show and the other movies, used aliens and the futuristic as a tool to examine race and sexuality issues in a way that hadn’t really been explored
Gene Roddenberry once said that he had “no belief that Star Trek depicts the actual future, it depicts us, now, things we need to understand about that.” He helmed a show that, in its very first episode, promised to boldly go where no man had gone before... and go there it did. Throughout its run and multiple spinoffs, Star Trek made powerful social commentary in line with its creator’s vision. The original series ran from 1966 through 1969, in an overlap between the civil rights movement’s height
On September 8 1966, Star Trek the Original Series premiered to American audiences for the first time and was given a vision of the idealized future of space travel. Set in the 23rd century, the series follows the adventures of the crew of the Starship Enterprise as the “seek out new life and boldly go where no man has gone before. ” Although the Science Fiction television show was set in a timeline into the distant future, many of the episodes centered around current themes of the 1960s, especially
Star Trek The Original Series Star Trek The Original Series is seen as sexist in very many ways because, the types of clothes that are worn between the males and the females, also how men and women are characterized and what Position/Ranking they have. The males and females are seen wearing different types clothes than one another. In the article “Fashion’s Final Frontier”: The Correlation of Gender Roles and Fashion in Star Trek by Katharina Andres, Mainly, the male characters such as Kirk or Spock
In her essay, “Women's Cinema as Counter-Cinema”, Claire Johnston proposed a path to creating Women's cinema to counter the numerous dominant male-oriented mainstream films. In it, she argues that you must first understand the ideology that is found in mainstream movies, and the ways that women are portrayed within it. She determined that there were two principle concepts to understand: how women are visually represented, and the effect that women have upon the creation of meaning within the film
Star Wars vs. Star Trek Throughout the past two decades, two science fiction cult classics have rivaled each other. Both have strong followings of loyal fans that live and breathe these classic tales. Lunch boxes, t-shirts, masks, bed sheets, and figurines are only some of the merchandising offspring of these two epic films. Star Wars and Star Trek certainly share many similarities being the benchmarks for the genre of science fiction movies. While the similarities are not difficult to
Star Trek took the world by storm with its futuristic scenarios and outlandish ideas, which opened up the doors for science fiction in America as it gained recognition and popularity all across the world. It started as a television series in the 1960’s to becoming a multi-billion dollar franchise including 5 television series, 12 movies, and selling a magnitude of merchandise (Star Trek). People tend to look past the fact that Star Trek was so influential on the world, all they see is men and women
Undercurrents of Imperialism and Colonialism in Star Trek Star Trek mirrored the Cold War/Vietnam paranoia of the late sixties—in command of the Enterprise, the Federation had an uneasy peace with its adversaries, the Klingons and Romulans (there were many episodes that came down to Kirk vs. the Klingons). In one episode Kirk and his Klingon counterpart each tried to influence an emerging culture to see things their way—remember Vietnam, Chile, and El Salvador? In another, Kirk and Spock were
Women of Star Trek Voyager Breaking Stereotypes In Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek: Voyager we finally see females taking front stage for the first time, unlike the previous series, turning the tables on all other traditional male dominated television shows. Voyager as a whole can be used as a template for writers and producers to follow as the correct way to portray women. In doing so we would begin to change the way young women see these positive role models and strive for higher goals, in turn
their position and gain respect. I came into the course of Appreciation of Film disliking anything Star Wars or Star Trek related. Once I heard they were both in the genre of science fiction, I immediately labeled them as unworthy to watch. In spite of this wrong accusation, I had no logical reasoning for why I did not like these movies. I had not even sat through a whole movie. Watching Star Trek Into Darkness
orientation, where individuals are judged solely on their merits. Gene Roddenberry envisioned this idea when he created the influential television series, Star Trek in 1966. Since the original television series, there has been many other shows based on the original and they all share this same theme and idea, one in particular sticks out. Star Trek: Voyager not only shares Roddenberry's legendary vision of the future, but exceeds it with the way in which it represents women, generating an ideal template
In the movie, Star Trek: Into Darkness, Spock best exemplifies Aristotelian ethics. A logical alien from the planet Vulcan, Spock displays a perfect balance of the virtues proposed by Aristotle as he seems to have reached the golden mean in all facets of the scales and whose telos is logic and reason and his pursuit of the logical decisions guides his choices. Spock’s ethical mastery is displayed in the opening scenes of the movie as he prepares to risk his life to save the native inhabitants of