Built from the bones of the submarine genre, with science-fiction for connective tissue, Star Trek captured the emotion and imagination of those who valued progress. It recast the military as a force that could do more than just fight, but think and act rationally and ethically, and still right the wrongs of the galaxy while eschewing violence, greed, and hubris. It repurposed the tools of war-positive television to express as virtues many things foreign to that audience. It also had naughty green women.
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