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Star Wars is a franchise that made specific comments on Vietnam, with creator George Lucas once indicating that the Ewoks is fighting against technologically advanced force symbolizing the Viet Cong. However, outside Original Series CHAPTER “A PRIVE LITTLE WAR,” He rarely touched on Star Trek’s competitive sci-fi franchise on Vietnam or his arguments. It all changed with The next generation CHAPTER “The Hunted,” that shower Michael Piller confirmed that she was built around the theme of “How Society treating her returning former rivers.”
If you need a short update, “The Hunted” is a chapter where the initiative is investigating a planet who wants to join the federation, but the planet needs help to track a prisoner who has escaped an escape called Roga Danar. He appears to be a former planner improved by the planetary government to fight on their behalf, but he and other such troops were removed from post -war society because they were too aggressive. Trek Star: The next generation The Chief Hancho Piller confirmed that this was an allegory for the Vietnam War and how many American citizens treated returning troops they considered them too barbaric to rejoin normal society.
Interestingly, this Star Trek: The next generation Episode offered a very different perspective on Vietnam than a TOS episode “A Private Little War,” which had referred to the conflict with the line “Do you remember the 20th -century brush wars on the Asian continent?” That episode included Klingons arming a primitive load with advanced weapons and Kirk making the bonkers’ decision to repair the situation by ensuring that the competitive load was equally armed. While Dr. McCoy opposes this idea, Kirk’s final decision is fascinating because the left show in general seems to approve America’s controversial participation in Vietnam in particular.
Quickly on to “The Hunted,” and you get a later Star Trek episode that it still doesn’t criticize Vietnam … at least, not the role played by the American Government. Although the planetary government in this chapter is corrupt, the story is primarily a criticism of American society and its reluctance to welcome back soldiers from Vietnam, many of which were cursed and spit on them and expect to treat them as returning heroes.
Picard ends the episode by telling the planet that she can reapply for federation membership after she finds out how to treat their ex -Chronicians. Essentially, this tells viewers that it is only after we find out how to treat former Vietnam and other wars that Star Trek’s utopia is in the future when we return on their return to society. It’s clearly more than a little preaching, but what did you expect from a hippie franchise related to saving the world, one whale at risk at a time?
Looking back at this Star Trek episode, Michael Piller noted that Roga Danar (the former runner -up who symbolized former Vietnam -savages) “Bringing the initiative to their knees is a bit hard to believe” but he eventually enjoyed this episode. We must agree: “The Hunted” is the perfect example of a preaching chapter that he did not let his message keep the writer from presenting an entertaining hour full of action and implantation. And Danar is a murderer character that we would love to see again, possibly leading his own spinoff film … one that could, just usfinally get a taste Section 31 Out of our mouths.
