Posted by Stephen Eccles on various newsgroups:

Subject: STAR TREK = HITLER AND TEDDY ROOSEVELT SMILING IN HELL?

Star Trek, the television science fiction series, started very in the United States during the 1960s but is now firmly established as one of the most popular television programs ever broadcast. It is shown across the world and is able to successfully communicate with audiences of different nationalities and ages.

Aside from generating a cult following of sad social mis-fits attracted by the shows escsaapism, it is (like most US television) an evil breeding ground for racial hatred and twisted stereotypes.

In one episode The USS Enterprise encounters a colony of people who have been abandoned on a far flung planet for generations. They now need rescuing and are brought aboard the Enterprise as a temporary safety measure. They all have stage Irish accents. wear filthy peasant clothes. sleep alongside their animals, distill their own alcohol and play folk music on violins. The male members of the community leave all the work to the women, being more concerned with getting wasted. They have little knowledge of even twentieth century culture, let alone the twenty-fourth century, and almost set the ship ablaze by kindling a tire out of sticks on one of the cargo decks. The leading woman is a fiery red head who berates all men and is characteristically presented with her sleeves rolled up and on her knees washing the floor.

The captain's problem of what to do with this throwback to primative Earth culture is fortuitously solved when the starship also encounters another colony. This community is characterized as effete and over-intellectual; they are highly scientific and have forgotten how to make babies the natural way and depend on a diminishing stock of clones to survive. They urgently require some new breeding stock in order to return to a natural system of reproduction and assured survival. The episode ends humorously with the captain able to successfully persuade the two colonies to unite and hopefully produce a new hybrid community, technologically advanced but also very earthy and human.

I want know if their is any Irish person out there who is not offended by this sick filth that only an evil American or Nazi (same thing) brain could conjure up. This episode on STTNG stands along the Seinfield eposide where the the Irish were portrayed are the leaders of world nazi movement and a Mission Impossible program were the Irish are killing black American tourists.

"People of Ireland know your real enemies They live in Hollywood and talk with American accents".
"The Last Post"
Stephen Eccles

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