{"id":103098,"date":"2026-10-14T02:00:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T06:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=103098"},"modified":"2026-06-17T21:47:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T01:47:18","slug":"star-trek-yesterdays-progressivism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/star-trek-yesterdays-progressivism\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Star Trek<\/em>: Yesterday\u2019s Progressivism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Zywa8QCRCIw?si=d1eaGN1mEuVdi35f\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Feral Historian<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 12 Jun 2026<\/p>\n<p><em>Star Trek<\/em> has always been a progressive cultural phenomenon, but that was in the last century. Now, <em>Star Trek<\/em> is older than most of its fan base and in some ways has started to look fairly conservative. This not only reminds us how relative those terms are, but also makes us ask, is <em>Star Trek<\/em> still relevant? Or perhaps more relevant than it ever was?<\/p>\n<p>00:00 Intro<br \/>\n01:42 <em>TNG<\/em>, <em>Discovery<\/em>, and the <em>Orville<\/em><br \/>\n04:16 Auroville<br \/>\n06:52 History Didn&#8217;t End<br \/>\n08:59 Social Cohesion as Technology<br \/>\n13:40 Step Back to Go Forward<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd39 Patreon   | patreon.com\/FeralHistorian<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd39 Ko-Fi     | ko-fi.com\/feralhistorian<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd39 and Merch! | feral-shop.fourthwall.com<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feral Historian Published 12 Jun 2026 Star Trek has always been a progressive cultural phenomenon, but that was in the last century. Now, Star Trek is older than most of its fan base and in some ways has started to look fairly conservative. This not only reminds us how relative those terms are, but also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[25,28],"tags":[1593,122,1020,223,101],"class_list":["post-103098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-media","tag-feralhistorian","tag-movies","tag-progressives","tag-startrek","tag-tv"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-qOS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103099,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103098\/revisions\/103099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}