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[QUOTE]Originally posted by targetemployee: [QB] Recently, I learned that one of the starships in Star Trek is named after the Santa Maria, Columbus' flagship in 1492. I began to think about the reasons that the creators of Star Trek would want to name a ship after a ship of a man who decimated an entire tribe of Native Americans. There seems to be an affinity for the Spaniards since the first series-a shuttlecraft is named Columbus. And in later series, there have been two ships named Santa Maria, a ship named Cortez, and a ship named Malinche. The Spaniards who came to America were the first European settlers to practice genocidal warfare against the aborgines who inhabited these lands. Centuries later, the creators of a sci-fi show are honoring these people by having their heroes, a flagship of one of the heroes, and the concubine of Cortez on the names of their ships. And further, in this same sci-fi franchise, genocide is seen as a necessity when the future of an entire nation is threatened. (I do know that the creators allowed the characters to find a cure. This cure was used to heal a friend of theirs. If Odo wasn't a friend of theirs, would they have found the cure and saved 'him' and his race?) My concern is that the writers and producers of Star Trek are condoning genocide on limited grounds-national necessity-and condemning genocide when national necessity was not threatened ("Remember", "Memorial"). For those who watch the shows, will they receive the message that genocide can be used as a means to preserve nation and self? And what does this say about us as a people? This is my concern. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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