Perversity is the natural consequence of the breakdown in the liberal principles that once guided the series. “Star Trek’s” romance with relativism gradually blotted them out until the franchise came to prize feeling over thought, image over substance, and immediate gratification over moral and political responsibility. What was once an expression of the Enlightenment faded “into darkness.”Author Timothy Sandefur is much too immersed in the show's various incarnations and permutations. Misquoting Aberforth Dumbledore, Sandefur must think the sun shines out of Gene Roddenberry’s every orifice.
The other DrC says the article sounds stupid. I add, entertainment tends to reflect the values of its era.
