Is there a connection with Star Trek fans and political affiliation?

[Douger]

I know. Mommy never told you.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

I don't know but sometimes they would land on some utopian style planet and Jim would always try to get it on with the local space girl. Then she would turn into some beast. It was always too good to be true. He was good at mugging down with the blue and green hotties. I loved that show.

 

[Harry Dresden]

Republicans watch Dukes of Hazard

so i guess Liberals watch Glee.....

 

[Outback]

Seven of one and nine of the other. Yep, I go with a connection.

 

[Harry Dresden]

I know. Mommy never told you.

your mommy never told you to stay away from girls young enough to be your grand daughter....fucking perverted fuck....

 

[Chris]

Live long and prosper. Vulcans are conservatives.

Then Spock was right when he said, " The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one?"

 

[francoHFW]

Liberals and Dems believe in it. LOL Pub dupes believe Rush/Glenn/Fox/Pubs. Mistake.

 

[Outback]

Live long and prosper. Vulcans are conservatives.

Then Spock was right when he said, " The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one?"

No, he was wrong and it got him killed. The conservative Vulcans brought him back to life after he foolishly spent it for the collective.

 

[Wiseacre]

Live long and prosper. Vulcans are conservatives.

Then Spock was right when he said, " The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one?"

I don't think he was talking about taxing the rich or redistribution of wealth. They are/were big believers in limited gov't and personal responsibility. Nanny state wasn't their thing.

 

[JoeB131]

My favorite thing about Star Trek is that they have the Liberal Ideal of a world where they no longer use money and "people are no longer motivated by personal Gain" But at least in the Movies they never explain to you exactly how it works. Classic, Utopian dreams are hard to explain in Reality

By the next generation, they explain that pretty effectively. They have replicators that can produce any material good you could want. And they have unlimited energy to produce it, along with transporters that can take you anywhere you want. And Holodecks that provide unlimited entertainment. It's implied that there is farming to make wine or for folks who just don't like that replicated food taste.

But, yeah, it is a socialist society. It also never really explains what the 99% of the population that isn't in Star Fleet because they aren't smart enough does to occupy their time.

Now in the Next Generation, they also produce the Ferengi (a race of ugly critters who are primarily motivated by Profit. They'd be right at home at Bain Capital.) But they never really worked dramatically as a bad guy because it was hard to imagine anyone wanting to do business with them because they'd always try to rip you off. (And again, if you can get anything you want from a replicator, why bother?) By Deep Space Nine, they were barely the comic Relief.

 

[JoeB131]

Live long and prosper. Vulcans are conservatives.

Some of them act more like the Ferengi, and that's the problem.

 

[uscitizen]

Progressives are more like the Borg.

Nope they would be the religious right.

 

[uscitizen]

Live long and prosper. Vulcans are conservatives.

Some of them act more like the Ferengi, and that's the problem.

the Ferengi are the corporatists.

 

[editec]

Star Trek takes place on a military vessel.

And what form of government most clearly resembles a military table of organization?

A dictatorship.

 

[midcan5]

While it is stretching the analogy a bit, Scfi and politics are often fantasies of made up activities, so yes, republicans, given their history and their fantasy concerning that history are Trekkies. See here for proof. http://www.usmessageboard.com/politics/186726-republican-ideology-through-history-7.html#post4251322

 

[editec]

If you want to live on the Starship Enterprise be prepared to say goodbye to democracy, republicanism, and your freedoms.

Kirk is your captain and captains are really just a military version of absolute monarchs while on a mission.

 

[JoeB131]

If you want to live on the Starship Enterprise be prepared to say goodbye to democracy, republicanism, and your freedoms.

Kirk is your captain and captains are really just a military version of absolute monarchs while on a mission.

It's just a TV Show... It's just a TV show.

Of course, with Captain Romney, we're all wearing Red Shirts.

 

[spectrumc01]

Back to reality (maybe). The Republicans are the closet thing to Star Trek we have.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=or1Mb1Vje1Q]Newt Gingrich promises US moon colony by 2020. - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Harry Dresden]

Live long and prosper. Vulcans are conservatives.

Then Spock was right when he said, " The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one?"

No, he was wrong and it got him killed. The conservative Vulcans brought him back to life after he foolishly spent it for the collective.

the guy saved the whole ship......so your saying he should have said ..."fuck it,i aint going in there"?..........

 

[Truthmatters]

Hmmm.

I think there is, generally speaking.

very much so.

Sci Fi people are liberals.

Except the Dune series people they are nuts.