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。」
I gotta give this one to Star Trek, c'mon. Star Trek has produced some of the most thought-provoking television ever put to screen with episodes like The Visitor, The Inner Light, The Offspring and Chain of Command. Anno's ridden one good anime for 30 years and half of its quality was on Gainax's animators. doesn't even have time to don the flame suit before being engulfed
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That episode alone gives Star Trek the win. He isn't like.. totally wrong but the show has explored that angle mostly in DS9 (I'd like them to go further with a lot of that while MAINTAINING THE CORE CONCEPT, LOOKING AT YOU PICARD, I'm for real mad that show decided to just shove poverty and drug addiction onto earth to make the more lazy and pointless, the Roddenberry Rules can suck but the core idea is crucial to it feeling like Trek, minimal petty conflict between Starfleet members etc cause also these people are at fucking work, you don't do your big melodramas while at work, especially if lives depend on it being done well. It's pretty much the only show for adults that's aspirational and actually does teach you to be better.
He's a Gainax animator