An Empire without a Planet

[TheDungen]

The Klingons were not more rounded in the original series. They were flavorless stand-ins for the Soviet Union, with no unique culture or background of any kind. They were just generic bad guys with smeary dark makeup. Also, where you get racism out of the Ferengi, or anything else in TNG, I have no idea. I think you're reaching pretty hard.

Also, to the guy who said the Federation is capitalist: Just... holy crap, dude. Have you ever watched Star Trek?

Spoiler: I agree

 

[TheDungen]

For Racism in TNG did everyone just forget Code of Honor? if you did that's good, I wish I could forget it, every quote I can find about it from the people who worked on it all admitted it was racist (and also just a bad episode). And I guess that since you deny that there was any racism in TNG you'll probably also ignore the horrible amount of sexism that was in pretty much all of Star Trek.

Although you were right about the Klingons, I went back and watched Errand of Mercy, the klingons as a whole were pretty bland, although I liked Kor as an adversary. I suppose I was just remembering him.

When star trek touches sexism it's to call society out on their sexism. As for code of honour I don't remember it well but from the memory alpha article it seems to be more about calling some arab countries out on their sexist practices. That's not racist. Sure we're not shown any more enlightened members of their society but then again star trek is filled with planet of hats and most planets that are only shown once are pretty one dimensional. You might as well say that it would have been racist not to have any planets colonised by any culture aside from americans.

 

[Garak]

For Racism in TNG did everyone just forget Code of Honor? if you did that's good, I wish I could forget it, every quote I can find about it from the people who worked on it all admitted it was racist (and also just a bad episode). And I guess that since you deny that there was any racism in TNG you'll probably also ignore the horrible amount of sexism that was in pretty much all of Star Trek.

Although you were right about the Klingons, I went back and watched Errand of Mercy, the klingons as a whole were pretty bland, although I liked Kor as an adversary. I suppose I was just remembering him.

As far as my memory serves from reading about that episode, it was a call by the episode director to cast all the people from that planet with black actors, which added the unfortunate overtone. Nothing was overtly written into the script, so that casting decision completely changed the tone of the episode, which most of the other people involved objected to. And you said there was a lot of racism. That was your only example? A single episode with controversial casting? As for sexism, the original series was very much a product of its time in that regard, usually. But not always. The original pilot featured a woman as the ship's first officer, a frankly astounding concept at the time. The network forced them to remove her.

 

[Chester A Arthur]

2 words:

Space Mongols.