5 Classic Star Trek Episodes That Have Aged Like Milk
Star Trek was groundbreaking television, but these five classic episodes prove not every trip aboard the Enterprise has aged well.
Star Trek was groundbreaking television, but these five classic episodes prove not every trip aboard the Enterprise has aged well.
The short version
- Even Gene Roddenberry’s progressive vision of the future couldn’t completely escape the 1960s Time can do funny things to television.
- Some shows and individual episodes only get better with age, revealing ideas and themes that audiences may not have fully appreciated the first time around.
- Others make you wonder how something that once seemed perfectly normal can feel so uncomfortable just a few decades later.
What happened
Sometimes TV ages like a fine Romulan ale. The episode carries an uncomfortable whiff of cultural imperialism.
Why it matters
The Enterprise arrives, decides this society has been living the wrong way, destroys the center of its culture, and leaves its people to adopt what Kirk considers a more natural life.
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