• LovableSidekick@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Kind of yeah, but Gene Roddenberry used allegories like the half black and half white dudes who hated each other - which took more effort than having characters just walk around in the present saying, “Wow, look at all the social injustice.”

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      Because that’s what you had to do to get past the executives and the censors in the 1960s.

      Just like how “Last Train to Clarksville” is about Vietnam.

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        2 days ago

        Just like how “Last Train to Clarksville” is about Vietnam.

        TIL. That is a really subtle reference (at least from the perspective of somebody born a couple of decades after the fact, anyway).

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          Yeah, but the executives were terrified of any and all conflict. That’s why so many shows of that era are incredibly bland.