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A reference in a book I was reading to Star Trek (and the author meant the original show, I believe) as a very philosphical show, so I ordered the first season. The first episode (as far as I could tell; the menu was hard to interpret) was certainly idea oriented, being about a member of the crew who, because of an encounter with a mysterious force-field plus a knack for ESP, begins to grow in mental abilities at an exponential rate. The show becomes a variation on the Frankenstein theme. So far so good. The production values, the lack of faith in peoples' minds to move quickly, the felt need to laboriously make each of its narrative points, all were astonishing. And the sexism--I am against holding previous world-views that were shared by large parts of that previous culture anachronistically against a work of art--but the sexism was too laughable.
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