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。」

  • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Part of why NuTrek sucks so much now is because American capitalism has become so degraded that commercial art produced within it can’t plausibly portray a future where anything is actually better.

    The latest season of Discovery felt like an exercise in American exceptionalism in spaaaaaace!

      • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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        4 years ago

        Lower Decks legit slaps. Disco is probably a good non Trek show and Picard is an atrocity. I thought I was going to hate LD but it seems like they sort of accidentally got trek right in an attempt to make it comedic. It's weirdly actually a good continuation of classic 90s era Trek

    • PrincessMagnificent [they/them, any]
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      4 years ago

      I wanted to like Discovery but they fucking opened up with "our swarthy fanatic enemies understand only one language, VIOLENCE" and I was out