Star Trek Addressed issues

[Dunedien]

I was thinking we should compile a list of and discuss issues that Star Trek adresses.
1:gay rights
2: racism
3: sexism
4: law vs. morality
5: developement/ research vs. ethics  

[The Angry Therapist]

They should all be burned out of the minds of everyone. Their wrong!!!!  

[Dunedien]

platsdevil

They should all be burned out of the minds of everyone. Their wrong!!!!

What you just said makes absolutely no sense to me, could you please specify what "they" is and who "their" is?  

[The Angry Therapist]

=) Never mind. All I'm sayin is that the problems are there, but most people do tend to ingore them... biggrin  

[Dunedien]

Actually, I think they are what make Star Trek. They are my favorite part of the show. To me these themes are what seperate Star Trek from almost every other scifi or even TV series.  

[Leila Amra Drake]

I agree. Many people just see the uniforms and the aliens and think, "What crap is this?" but actually Star Trek is a show that makes you think about society, psychology, science,.... biggrin  

[The Angry Therapist]

It's very true. I watch a lot of deep space nine, and it shows poverty and war a lot.  

[vegito61283]

Dunedien

I was thinking we should compile a list of and discuss issues that Star Trek adresses.
1:gay rights
2: racism
3: sexism
4: law vs. morality
5: developement/ research vs. ethics

Dont forget that they also got into how to work out an argument besides just shooting and killing.  

[Tohru-licious]

one of my favorite episodes was shen they did the black and white sided aliens. I mean it played out perfectly my increduality about racism.  

[vegito61283]

Tohru-licious

one of my favorite episodes was shen they did the black and white sided aliens. I mean it played out perfectly my increduality about racism.

That was exactly what that episode was supposed to show. Just because their colors were opposite, they were still the same. But due to the opposite colors, they were very hostile to each other.  

[xXSuperWhateverXx]

Yeah, Star Trek did break down a lot of stereotypes! Like for example, people back then thought that Asians were bad drivers, but Sulu drove the ship and there never was a single driving accident (not that I know of)!