Anno: "I don't hate Star Trek, but I'm not impressed by it. You can see the arrogance of America in it. It's a story of influencing or enlightening native peoples of destination planets, that features romance with their most admirable woman in a front-line way. I feel like this is American imperialism itself.

It's like Marxists are portrayed as being primitives. I can't get used to that kind of American worldview. I think the Enterprise is cool, but that's all."

庵野: 『スタートレック』は嫌いじゃないですけど、そんなにはまってはいないんです。なんかアメリカ人の傲慢さが見えててね。行く先の星々の原住民を感化していくというか啓蒙していく話や、最前線の基地では、そこの一番偉い女性とロマンスがある。もう、アメリカの帝国主義そのものという気がしてね。なんかこうマルクス主義の人たちが、原始的なものとして描かれてますよね。ああいうアメリカ的な世界観というのには、どうもなじめなくて。エンタープライズ号は、カッコいいと思うんですけどね。」

  • zeal0telite [he/him,they/them]
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    4 years ago

    A lot of TOS is dated by modern standards but I feel like this ignores that a show in the 1960s portrays humans putting aside petty differences to just explore the galaxy.

    On the bridge, there's a Russian man, an American man, a Japanese man, and an African woman (I don't think she's got a canonical birthplace but she's fluent in Swahili) and they're all just working together to just learn stuff. They even get along with the alien whose culture is incredibly different from ours.

    It's not perfect but it's literally one of the few popular TV shows out there just presents a future that actually seems attainable and liveable.

    TNG even attempts to correct for these earlier mistakes by really doubling down on the Prime Directive where the Federation are literally barred from attempted to influence an independent planet's politics so they don't interfere with their natural development. I think they realised how bad some of the "Kirk shows silly aliens enlightened thought" episodes came across and so they attempted to improve it in later series.