Aye aye, Captain Kirk

摘要

I cannot agree with Bryn Glover's rosy view of Star Trek as a socialist Utopia (18 July, p 27). The original series was about a warship and its crew, all dutifully obeying orders and Starfleet regulations. True, many stories did not involve military action, just as armed forces today also do humanitarian operations. We saw nothing of civilian society except on a few outposts. What was apparent was that Starfleet seemed to rule the galaxy and wanted for nothing -a dream for the Pentagon today.