The irony is that the MAGAts who want to return to the "white-oriented" late 1950s and 1960s, have no clue that for we children of that era was that it was an era where a kid didn't have to feel bad about being friends with a "colored," loved the idea of scientific breakthroughs: Space program, polio vaccine, women taking …
The irony is that the MAGAts who want to return to the "white-oriented" late 1950s and 1960s, have no clue that for we children of that era was that it was an era where a kid didn't have to feel bad about being friends with a "colored," loved the idea of scientific breakthroughs: Space program, polio vaccine, women taking control of their own lives, as corny as it seems now, "Star Trek" was not a "pop culture phenomenon" it was a mirror of a nascent embodiment of the cultural shift.
The series had enough battle/fight scenes for the male adults, alluring fashions for the adult women and cross-gender models for the kids.
Unfortunately, because the show wanted to compete with the "campy" shows of the 1960s, it fell toward the wayside wanting to compete with "The Monkees" and "Batman."
Sadly, so true.
The irony is that the MAGAts who want to return to the "white-oriented" late 1950s and 1960s, have no clue that for we children of that era was that it was an era where a kid didn't have to feel bad about being friends with a "colored," loved the idea of scientific breakthroughs: Space program, polio vaccine, women taking control of their own lives, as corny as it seems now, "Star Trek" was not a "pop culture phenomenon" it was a mirror of a nascent embodiment of the cultural shift.
The series had enough battle/fight scenes for the male adults, alluring fashions for the adult women and cross-gender models for the kids.
Unfortunately, because the show wanted to compete with the "campy" shows of the 1960s, it fell toward the wayside wanting to compete with "The Monkees" and "Batman."