The Next Generation

Star Trek: The Next Generation. Liberal or conservative? It is amazing that things like this get argued about online. The conservative viewpoint of the world never ceases to amaze me. All I know is that I do not understand their logic. Or lack of it.

Personally, I always thought that The Next Generation was more liberal than conservative.

I do enjoy this exchange between Jean-Luc Picard and the god-like Q in the episode entitled Hide And Q:

Q: “Let us pray for understanding and for compassion.”

Picard: “Lets us do no such damn thing!”

An Agnostic And Atheistic Trek

Damn it Jim! I’m a doctor, not the pope!

From Why the original "Star Trek" still matters by Andrew O’Hehir:

In the middle of the Cold War, Roddenberry imagined a radical-progressive, Enlightenment-fueled vision of the human future, one in which the conflict between capitalism and communism had been long transcended, along with other earthbound forms of racial, ethnic or religious strife. Strikingly, there is no religious or mystical dimension to the "Star Trek" universe at all, at least until much later in its development. (Roddenberry regarded himself as an "agnostic atheist," and banned any religious references from the show.)