The funny thing about that metaphor is that everyone on that planet would literally be horrified by being forced to take a long hard look in the mirror.
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He is quite a handsome man… 
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Looking at that paper cup in his hand makes me wonder if Sir Patrick ever said “Tea, Earl Grey, hot” to one of those hot drink dispensing machines.
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Probably every time…
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Ok, ok. You can stop imitating fiction now, 2024 …
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It sounds a lot more expensive that an SRO or studio apartment.
But those wouldn’t be cruel enough for some people.
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I can remember people saying that episode was really heavy-handed in its messaging. But of course there’s nothing so obvious that people dedicated to being blind will see it.
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Oh it totally is… and also kind of misses the reality of racism… still, how anyone can miss the meaning here is beyond me. Someone would have to be willfully ignorant or just utterly ignorant of that time in history…
But I think the greatest political messaging around the issues of race and other forms of bigotry was the structure of the crew anyway… a broad mix of people from all over the world, representing different cultures, living harmoniously? That’s the key there… And dipshits refuse to understand it. It seems to me one point made by David Seitz in A Different Trek is that as much as it might have messaging about future equality, it was even more aspirational FOR white people, too… in getting them to move beyond their own petty racism and embrace diversity for its own sake. No Trek series got that better than DS9, which asked white people to not only imagine themselves working along side POC, but also to imagine one as a leader and even revered religious figure… I mean, they literally Sisko (spoiler alert!) a God at the end.
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Every episode.
Just in case one didn’t catch this meaning in the first few episodes, it should have been crystal clear before the end of the first season.
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They just skip over the whole an advanced culture not having money or capitalism thingy.
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My favourite post-hoc rationalisation for why that episode wasn’t saying what it clearly is was one guy who claimed it “didn’t pick sides” on the topic because Kirk condemned both Bele and Lokai.
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well, consider shatner’s perspective. maybe he chooses not to see people in terms of left or right. he’s simply blind to direction…
i know there’s a bun alert. but is there a pun alert? 
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reminds me of my favorite line from Free Enterprise
Mark: but if you are playing both Brutus and Ceaser, won’t you be stabbing yourself in the back?
Shatner: well it wouldn’t be the first time
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