Star Trek film has political message (Spoiler)

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41. He was right about the flip phones, automatic doors, racial intermixing

talking computers, usb thumb drives and lasars. Ok, the little blinking christmas lights going off on some of the consoles were totally pathetic, but they made the actors all the more endearing for playing along. Same goes for the styrofoam boulders.

To understand how significant the civil rights episodes were, you had to be there in those bad old days of outright hatred and civil rights demonstrations, like I was. Putting a black woman in charge of something on the bridge was unthinkable, albeit, silly, because she was really the phone operator. But she was smokin' hot! He never wrote down to racial stereotypes on that. I have to admit, Kirk was always leering at pretty women, though.

We were in a cold war with russia, and everyone loved Chekov. Even Spock's differences were shocking.

Roddenberry showed us how long and slow and stubborn the human learning curve is. He showed us that we never learn anything important except the hard way, through losses. He wrote about bad race relations and civil rights violations and worker's rights violations and class warfare and military war at a time that those ideas were totally entrenched as acceptable in "good" society.

Ok, he got the transporter thing wrong, and only some women like to wear mini skirts to work.

I think he really made us take a good hard look at ourselves. I think he was a visionary, and a social scientist. When most of the rest of TV was sex and violence and flashy cars, he made us look at ourselves and think.

The guy's awesome to me.