psychoceramics: STAR TREK ­ HITLER AND TEDDY ROOSEVELT SMILING IN HELL?

[nmcnelly @ bu.edu (N.A.F. McNelly)]

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: Subject: STAR TREK ­ HITLER AND TEDDY ROOSEVELT SMILING IN HELL?

: ³Star Trek,² the television science fiction series, started very
: in the United States during the 1960s but is now firmly
: established as one of the most popular television programs ever
: broadcast. It is shown across the world and is able to successfully
: communicate with audiences of different nationalities and ages.
: 
: Aside from generating a cult following of sad social mis-fits attracted 
: by the shows escsaapism, it is (like most US television) an evil 
: breeding ground for racial hatred and twisted stereotypes.
: 
: In one episode The USS Enterprise encounters a colony of 
: people who have been
: abandoned on a far flung planet for generations. They now need
: rescuing and are brought aboard the Enterprise as a temporary safety
: measure. They all have stage Irish accents. wear filthy peasant clothes. 
: sleep
: alongside their animals, distill their own alcohol and play folk music
: on violins. The male members of the community leave all the work to
: the women, being more concerned with getting wasted. They have
: little knowledge of even twentieth century culture, let alone the
: twenty-fourth century, and almost set the ship ablaze by kindling a
: tire out of sticks on one of the cargo decks. The leading woman is a
: fiery red head who berates all men and is characteristically presented
: with her sleeves rolled up and on her knees washing the floor.
: 
: The captainıs problem of what to do with this throwback to
: primative Earth culture is fortuitously solved when the starship also
: encounters another colony. This community is characterized as effete
: and over-intellectual; they are highly scientific and have forgotten
: how to make babies the natural way and depend on a diminishing
: stock of clones to survive. They urgently require some new breeding
: stock in order to return to a natural system of reproduction and assured
: survival. The episode ends humorously with the captain able to
: successfully persuade the two colonies to unite and hopefully produce
: a new hybrid community, technologically advanced but also very
: earthy and human.
: 
: I want know if their is any Irish person out there who is not offended 
: by this sick filth that only an evil American or Nazi (same thing) brain 
: could conjure up. This episode on STTNG stands along the Seinfield
: eposide where the the Irish were portrayed are the leaders of world
: nazi movement and a Mission Impossible program were the Irish are 
: killing black American tourists.
: 
: "People of Ireland know your real enemies: 
:   They live in Hollywood and talk with American accents".
: 
: "The Last Post"
: Stephen Eccles

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