The Politics of Science Fiction

There's never been a show with a greater surplus of fully available continuity management people than Star Trek. I think that science fiction tends to be political. It doesn't tend to be escapist. But the crux of it is, is it an engaging story? So like the forever war by John Haldeman, that's clearly a critique of Vietnam. And then I'd say things that are more pertinent to the period we're living in such as gender, gender roles,.