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[โ€“] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I never thought of it that way, but you do have a point. I still think it's more pew pew than anything else though.

[โ€“] lugal@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 months ago

Steve Shives (I hope I got the spelling correct) made a video why conservatives like star trek and a part of it is they see it as stories of other worlds and by doing so ignore all the allegorical implications. "A planet where people have the false gender assigned to them at birth? How truly alien!"

And to be fair: escapism is a legitimate goal of scifi and media in general. You watch scifi to enter a different world, for at least an hour a week be free of all your problems in the here and now.