The Ideologies of Star Trek vs Firefly

[thewayne]

The article more specifically says Fascist, but I haven't read the whole thing yet so I have no comment on the fascist label. But I liked the way it started and want to read the whole thing, so I thought I'd share it.

Once upon a time I read an article that compared the ideologies/philosophies of Star Trek vs Star Wars, I think it was written by Orson Scott Card. It was quite interesting, I wish I could find it again.

http://www.friesian.com/trek.htm

Comments

[cteare.livejournal.com]

Interesting what I was able to read of it. I've read from various articles that Roddenberry had an optimistic view of the future, but I doubt he had any ideas of how it would be achieved. There was also a considerably different tone from the original series to Next Gen.

I found the original series fun, escapist entertainment. Next Gen took itself a bit too seriously and many times became preachy about things.

Firefly always came on at a time when it was difficult for me to watch, so I only caught a few episodes. It was interesting. I see Serenity. It has an interesting concept, but it's overall tone is not as optimistic.