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Film Theory: Why The Star Trek Federation is Fascist (video)

September 13, 2016 By Kathy Shaidle

Stick around long enough for the “fascism ISN’T capitalism and Hitler vowed to destroy it” bit — which goes into my HUGE complaint that there is NO MONEY in the Star Trek universe.

And the comments begin. There IS a lazy conflation of Federation/Starfleet in this video but I don’t find it as galling as these guys:

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PLUS: “The progressive visionary behind ‘Star Trek’ was an insecure misogynistic hack”

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