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Space; the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Lenin. Its continuing mission to explore strange new worlds, To seek out new life and new civilizations. To boldly go where no one has gone before!

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Star Trek is Posadism. (lemmy.ml)

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[–] GreatSquare@lemmygrad.ml -4 points 5 months ago

The entire show is largely about them avoiding colonizing planets though. They have contact with them, talk and maybe help out with some issues, then leave. If the species isn’t space-fairing they are supposed to just leave. (Sometimes they don’t if there’s some problem they can solve.)

In propaganda, the metaphor for your country is portrayed as good. You portray the enemy as evil, barbaric, etc. The Klingons and Romulans represent the Asiatic hordes threatening the West. (There's a similar argument with Lord of the Rings and it's portrayal of Orcs.) You show yourself just trying to do good all around the known universe.

Star Trek being from the early 60s and created by Roddenberry, an ex military officer, portrays the sci-fi military Star Fleet as a "peacekeeping" force. Neo colonialism replaced colonialism by that time. Colonialist expansion looked a little too imperial.

On the other hand, Star Wars being early 70s was an anti-Vietnam war film - something that Lucas has spoken about a few times. The rebels are up against a far better equipped military.

Similarly Aime Cesaire wrote The Tempest (a reimagining of Shakespeare's The Tempest) as a critique of colonialism.