{"id":2315,"date":"2015-09-06T09:52:51","date_gmt":"2015-09-06T14:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2315"},"modified":"2015-09-06T12:43:35","modified_gmt":"2015-09-06T17:43:35","slug":"the-politics-of-star-trek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2315","title":{"rendered":"The Politics of Star Trek"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Modeled on Gulliver\u2019s Travels, the series was meant as an opportunity for social commentary, and it succeeded ingeniously, with episodes scripted by some of the era\u2019s finest science fiction writers. Yet the development of Star Trek\u2019s moral and political tone over 50 years also traces the strange decline of American liberalism since the Kennedy era.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.claremont.org\/article\/the-politics-of-star-trek\/#.VeuxB6OVtaU\">The Politics of Star Trek<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But by the end of <em>Next Generation<\/em>, the liberalism that once preached technological progress and human reason has reversed its priorities and now regards \u201cprogress\u201d as incipient colonization and a threat to diversity and the environment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Modeled on Gulliver\u2019s Travels, the series was meant as an opportunity for social commentary, and it succeeded ingeniously, with episodes scripted by some of the era\u2019s finest science fiction writers. Yet the development of Star Trek\u2019s moral and political tone &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2315\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2315"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2317,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315\/revisions\/2317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}