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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ryujin" data-source="post: 9565700" data-attributes="member: 27897">"Star Trek" needs to be idealistic and forward-looking, to be "Star Trek." We have more than enough dystopian and dark fiction out there. We need something to aspire to.I started watching TOS in 1966. I was too young to really internalize the barely hidden messages in it, but they affected me anyway. My first exposure to the US Constitution, as a Canadian, was via "The Omega Glory." It set the tone, for me. A few years later, when I was busy spotting the mistakes and assumptions in "Chariots of the Gods", the irony of a Canadian telling Americans that their Declaration of Independence needs to be more than just words on a page finally struck me. E Plebnista.TOS was never about perfect people, in a perfect society. It was aspirational. Utopias can't exist because people are imperfect, so they can't maintain a perfect society. The Federation is a structure in which people can aspire to be better and actually get there. It shows us that we can aspire to be better, and be better, making society better as a result.Several others have said it: The existence of Section 31, as a necessity to The Federation, makes all of that a lie. "You can be who you are because we do the dirty work, that you won't." The only way that Section 31 could have any value, in my Star Trek, is if it's shown to be an absolute bald-faced lie, perpetrated by power hungry people who can't get what they really want out of The Federation. They need to be rooted-out and expunged from existence.</blockquote>

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