This is one of my posts where I “review” Star Trek episodes. I will be giving each one a star rating. I sometimes will make some comments about non-political parts of them that I like or don’t like. I’ll sometimes use the issues raised in the episode to discuss similar issues in real life. And I will sometimes simply high-light the progressive politics of ST. ST is in-line with the three original themes of this blog, as I explain in the first ST post where I offer some general thoughts about ST.
I’m not very familiar with The Original Series and there might be some small amount of material there that would affect what I say about Star Trek (i.e. how often religion is mentioned)
Lastly. multi-culturalism is such a pervasive theme in ST that I only comment on it when it goes beyond the norm (i.e. inter-species partners).
“Indiscretion” See this for a plot summary.
A very non-political episode, but a good one. I give it two stars out of five.
“Rejoined” See this for a plot summary.
“The lesbian kiss that wasn’t” I can’t find where I read that, but I like how it describes part of this episode. Two women kiss each other, but it’s actually heterosexual since they’re motivated by feelings that their symbiants have for each other from earlier hosts when one host was male and they were married.
As I’ve described elsewhere, aside from the issue of non-heterosexual characters, ST has a fairly good record of being anti-homophobic.
UPDATE 3/24/22 When I watched this recently, I decided that it WAS anti-homophobic. Not the kiss really, but something else. Although I don't consider same-sex relationships to be "taboo," historically the word "forbidden" might be appropriate. The two Trill women wrestle with doing something (starting a new romantic relationship when their symbionts have a past together as a couple) forbidden by their society, because they love each other. They talk about pursuing that love even though they will be disowned by their society. In THAT sense it kind of IS anti-homophobic.
Overall a good episode, I give it two stars out of five.
“Starship Down” See this for a plot summary.
A very non-political episode, although there’s one minor thing I’ll address. I’m not going to say something every time Ferengi greed is displayed, it happens something like every other episode.
A good episode, I give it three stars out of five.
“Little Green Men” See this for a plot summary.
There’s some good political commentary about Earth history (and our present)- the greed, bigotry, war, nuclear fission, and tobacco.
The story is pretty creative and well-done, I give it four stars out of five.
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