Is Exploration Violent?
Channel: Electric Didact
Date: 2016-09-29

Is the Enterprise’s continuing mission to explore strange new worlds and seek out new life and new civilizations inevitably violent? 

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Works Cited: 
Star Trek (The Original Series) (1966-1967)

Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987-1994)

Star Trek Beyond (2016), Justin Lin, Paramount Pictures

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, “Can the Subaltern Speak?”, A Critique of Postcolonial Reason (1999)

Star Trek: Into Darkness (2009), J.J. Abrams, Paramount Pictures

Star Trek: First Contact (1996), Jonathan Frakes, Paramount Pictures

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Other Interesting Reads: 

The Star Trek Fallacy: Romanticizing Imperialism (http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/09/the-star-trek-fallacy-romanticizing-imperialism.html) 

Star Trek and “The Other”: Race, Gender and the Cultural Imagination (http://eaglefeather.honors.unt.edu/2012/article/113#.V-lxsPArK70)

What I wish I could unlearn from Star Trek TNG: The Prime Directive, or Conserving cultures like a lab sample (https://thegeekanthropologist.com/2013/02/21/what-i-wish-i-could-unlearn-from-star-trek-tng-2-the-prime-directive-or-conserving-cultures-like-a-lab-sample/)

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Assets:
Star trek openings - all series, (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZSTwEnWN5Q)

Star Trek Beyond | Clip: "Counting On It" | Paramount Pictures International (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52TQCGlN1A4&feature=youtu.be)

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Robert Crc, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gayatri_Chakravorty_Spivak#/media/File:Gayatri_Spivak_on_Subversive_Festival.jpg) 

Star Trek: First Contact (5/9) Movie CLIP - Assimilate This! (1996) HD, (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4QyCdRvXr4)

What Is Violence, (https://youtu.be/DyitF-6tBu4) 

Star Trek: TNG "Prime Directive" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-qRRd7wtGo)

Star Trek Into Darkness Movie CLIP - You Got This (2013) - Chris Pine Movie HD (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpItOL0ufyI)

Enterprise firing on Narada (http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/File:USS_Enterprise_firing_on_Narada.jpg) 

Enterprise and Vengeance Face Off (http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/File:USS_Enterprise_and_USS_Vengeance_face_off.jpg) 

Star Trek: Into Darkness, military semiotics (http://ultrahd.highdefdigest.com/32384/startrekintodarkness4k.html)

Picard and Data Hunt borg (http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/File:Picard_and_Data_hunt_Borg.jpg)

Balthazar Edison (http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/File:Balthazar_Edison.jpg) 

Emotionally Compromised - Star Trek (6/9) Movie CLIP (2009) HD (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9vHopyEtzs) 

The Line Must Be Drawn Here - Star Trek: First Contact (6/9) Movie CLIP (1996) HD (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3RNsZvdYZQ)