In 1966 if you sat down and watched an episode of "Star Trek", as many Americans did, the things they did on screen were so far fetched it was hard to fathom any of those devices actually existing. Fast forward over fourty years into the future, and the unthinkable now exists. When the captain asks to be beamed up, all he does is pull out a little gadget that flips open and he can communicate through, know what that is? A little thing called a cell phone. When they spoke to the leader of the other nation, he was on a screen and that's how they were communication. Today you could do that too, just buy a computer camera and there you go. It is very true that science fiction writers are the best inventors. In Farhenheit 451 they have tv's covering an entire wall, and that is very much possible today.
When Star Trek came out, it was during a time of war, civil rights movements, women rights, and so much more. They way they dressed and some of the plots of Star Trek pushed the bounderies that America was accustomed to. The two main girls of that episode had very revealing clothes, similar to that of the Romans and Greeks. Also the plot had to deal with again ethocentrism. The cloud people thought they were better then the minors and that the minors were not entilted to the same rights as they did. In the real world, men considered women the "lesser race" and did not deserve the privalages that men had. Trust was also a strong theme. In previous decades people did not have to worry about locking there doors or were taught to be distrustful towards other, but the sixites really changed all of that. The show depicted how people had become so untrustworthy that they will act foolish just to protect themselves from getting hurt. Who would've thought a science fiction show would have deeper meanings to it?
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