Star Trek
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Star Trek
Star Trek was pitched as kind of a Western in space, this idea of exploring strange new worlds. I think that Starfleet sort of recognizes that colonial past and says, we have to figure out a different kind of ethical balance for dealing with peoples that we meet. And I think that that's actually a way in which Star Trek is kind of post-colonial or dealing with that post-colonial reality.
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