I like “Star Trek.” I especially like the original show with Spock, Kirk, and Scotty. The program as a whole sometimes dealt with social issues through parable, and it was actually pretty effective. Race was dealt with in an episode where Frank Gorshin (Batman’s Riddler) played a role where half of his face was black and the other white, and he hated an alternate version of himself whose face was half white and the other black. Like….it was the opposite profile of the other guy. The point was to show that hating somebody for such minor differences was stupid. This during the tumultuous period known as the sixties.
There was also another episode that is especially relevant today. This was called “The Return of the Archons.” In that show, Kirk et al. beam down to a society whose inhabitants are a bunch of brain-dead drones controlled by an amorphous ruler…
