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"I miss the days when star trek wasn't so political."

I grew up watching Voyager and TNG with my mom. Some episodes were about lasers and robots and weird aliens, but sometimes my mom would ask me the question 'what real world controversy is this really about?' So were they lasers or were they symbols of imperialistic violence? Were they robots or were they about how we quantify life, and where do we draw the line for rights? Were they weird aliens or was it about Bosnian refugees? And sometimes they were subtle about it, but even when I was pretty young i understood things like... war crimes and personhood.

So like... maybe yall just weren't paying attention?