TNG 5×17 ‘The Outcast’: An androgynous race prohibits any expression of gender, as it is viewed as ‘primitive’.
TOS 3×15 ‘Let That Be Your Last Battlefied’: Two members of the same species view the other as inferior because of which color is on which side of their body.
VOY 7×13 ‘Repentance’: Voyager rescues passengers from a prison ship whose prisoners are on their way to be executed.
TNG 2×9 ‘The Measure of a Man’: Data’s sentience is brought into question when he is forced by Starfleet to undergo an undesired procedure.
TNG 7×20 ‘Journey’s End’: The Enterprise is ordered to relocate a population of Native Americans from their planet of 20 years because of a treaty with the Cardassians.
ENT 2×14 ‘Stigma’: T’Pol is recalled when it is discovered she has Pa’Nar syndrome, a disease transmitted through mind-melds conducted by an unaccepted sub-culture of Vulcans.
DS9 6×13 ‘Far Beyond the Stars’: Benny Russel is fired from his writing job when his story about a black space station commander receives scrutiny from the publisher.
TNG 7×9 ‘Force of Nature’: Two Hekarans board the Enterprise to convince them that their warp drive is damaging their home world and the space around it.
TOS 1×23 ‘A Taste of Armageddon’: The Enterprise discovers a 500 year war on a planet that is run by computers that calculate the fatalities and force those people to die.
VOY 3×6 ‘Remember’: B’Elanna experiences the memories of a telepathic woman’s youth, where her lover and his people are relocated and murdered without repercussion.
Star Trek + Social Commentary (context in the captions)
THIS is what the original Star Trek TV series and films were about. Not just about blowing up things in space and snazzy lens flares with a side order of casual sexism -.-‘.
dude do you know how many people I have pissed off by saying the exact same thing?
Not enough people.
This what all good Sci-Fi is about.
Lets hope the new series picks up themes like this.
This is one of the reasons I got into it. It offers escapism while being thought-provoking and intellectually stimulating at the same time.
I was watching the TNG episode Sarek yesterday and got into a bit of a conversation with my dad about Dementia
valar apologist 