We've been watching old Star Trek series lately, like Voyager and DS9. I didn't watch any of them back when they aired originally and holy shit it makes me feel old to watch them now. I was in my 20s when they first were on.
Anyway, it's pretty interesting to watch them now. They're a sort of TV version of 1930s comic books and sci-fi short story collections, which makes them seem more dated than the crappy special effects do. Most of the sci-fi series today are aimed at niche audiences and actually abandoned the fetters imposed on them by the need to be mass-media friendly when people still watched broadcast and cable TV. For the most part, sci fi series today have long involved, multi-layered stories that unfold over many episodes and seasons. The producers of those series apparently don't have to worry about courting the "average person" demographics like the producers of Star Trek did.
It's also a lot more obvious to me today that the stories are cultural propaganda and I wouldn't be surprised if the series were crafted by a group that was aiming to steer civilization. The show is a version of the Atlantis Myth, although crucially, it's set in the future rather than the distant past. That's really the only point I wanted to make in this post.
The ancient atlantis myth portrays a fallen/lost world along the Golden Age/Silver Age/Bronze Age line of thinking. The star trek series portrays a technologically redeemed world where the golden age is everyday.
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