Post 9/11 Star Trek Enterprises was by far the most war crime apologist of the major sci fi shows. Stargate, despite being far less idealistic by nature, shows things like torture as something that bad guys do, in Farscape John Crichton is horrified by what the US is becoming.
Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Enterprise painted those actions as pretty horrific nine times out of ten, and the tenth is even murky. Stargate shows a bunch of Americans literally walking through portals to places they’ve never seen to unilaterally declare people the bad guys, interfere violently and get a shitload of people killed in the process all to push their own ideals and misunderstandings of the universe/democracy onto everyone else. Despite the fact that the United States is a shitshow. They learn almost nothing from their examples except for what they fuckin’ steal.
So when it comes to calling it ‘America in Space’… Enterprise doesn’t even fall on the list for me.
Post 9/11 Star Trek Enterprises was by far the most war crime apologist of the major sci fi shows. Stargate, despite being far less idealistic by nature, shows things like torture as something that bad guys do, in Farscape John Crichton is horrified by what the US is becoming.
Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Enterprise painted those actions as pretty horrific nine times out of ten, and the tenth is even murky. Stargate shows a bunch of Americans literally walking through portals to places they’ve never seen to unilaterally declare people the bad guys, interfere violently and get a shitload of people killed in the process all to push their own ideals and misunderstandings of the universe/democracy onto everyone else. Despite the fact that the United States is a shitshow. They learn almost nothing from their examples except for what they fuckin’ steal.
So when it comes to calling it ‘America in Space’… Enterprise doesn’t even fall on the list for me.