the stereotypes of star trek

[autopoetic]

The following is a totally serious and hard-nosed semiotic analysis of the totally wrong and evil racial stereotypes underlying the dominator culture narrative of the Star Trek universe. If you derive any entertainment value from it, you're a bad person.

Clearly, being the good guys, humans = anglo-saxons. We are the normal, and all else is either

Comments

[skatche]

So what's Data? The token gay character to show they're not all bad?

[anonymous]

I remember reading a novel that took place in India and had a bit about the "feringhees," a nasty group of foreign people interested only in money - the East India Trading Company. There's a little bit on them here: http://oldfraser.lexi.net/publications/forum/1994/july/tax_freedom_day_is_here.html (scroll down to "Economics Lost in Space").

Ahem.

Pardon me, my geek is showing.

Josie

[autopoetic]

Ha! Yes, it makes sense that it would be good old Europeans all along.