Newsgroup: it.fan.startrek
Titolo: USA: the only space-faring nation ever

why do the opening credits of "enterprise"  make us believe that the USA
was the only country ever to go into space exploration?
why do they have this attitude that the world begins at new york, and ends
at honolulu???
in the opening sequence we see:
HMS enterprise - UK
spirit of st louis - US
space shuttle enterprise - US
amelia earhart - US
wright brothers(?) - US
jet - US
submarine - ?
jet and pilot - US
astronauts - US
space shuttle - US
astronauts - ?
man at blackboard with US rocket in background
astronaut in space - US
man on moon - US
lunar module - US
mars vehicle - US
space shuttle - US
now i'm not denying that the US has made many great space achievements,
but what about:
italy:
galileo galilei
leonardo da vinci
russia:
konstantin tsiolkovsky - first rocket theorist and designer
germany:
hermann oberth - theorist and author "the rocket into interplanetary space"
vernher von braun - german a2 & v2 rockets (yeah the v2 was used by the
nazis - doesn't diminish its historical achievement though, let's face it
- the US developed the atomic bomb)
USSR:
sputnik 1 - first satellite
laika - first living creature in space
luna 1 & 3 - moon exploration
yuri gagarin - first person
Valentina Tereshkova - first woman
lunokhod - first planetary remote controlled vehicle
mars 3 - first mars landing
venera 9 - first venus landing
vega 1 - first flight to Comet Halley
not to mention the dozens of other countries involved in space flight
since then.
startrek has always had the "one world" view of earth, but even the bridge
crew on TOS was more multicultural than the crew of the enterprise!
i hope that paramount dump that whole opening sequence, including that
fucking awful theme song, for season 2.
-- 
"Capitalism is the extraordinary belief 
that the nastiest of men, 
for the nastiest of reasons, 
will somehow work for the benefit of us all"

snip global achievements>
:
: not to mention the dozens of other countries involved in space
flight
: since then.
:
: startrek has always had the "one world" view of earth, but even the
bridge
: crew on TOS was more multicultural than the crew of the enterprise!
TOS: American, Vulcan, Russian, Asian, Black
ENT: American, Vulcan, English, Asian, Black
I'm curious as to how you are defining "more"
: i hope that paramount dump that whole opening sequence, including
that
: fucking awful theme song, for season 2.
Start exhaling now as holding your breath would accomplish nothing.

 
but then, who am i to fight the complete americanisation of world culture?
as george dubya said - AT SOME POINT WE MAY BE THE ONLY ONES LEFT. THAT'S
OK WITH ME. WE ARE AMERICA.
SEIG HEIL!

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news:ozgarak-2102...@cpe-144-137-86-188.nsw.bigpond.net.au...
: > TOS: American, Vulcan, Russian, Asian, Black:
: in TOS, the sulu and chekov had accents (of sorts) as did scotty
Chekov had a really bad Russian accent, just as Scotty had a really
bad Scottish accent. Sulu had the most American accent on the bridge.
: > ENT: American, Vulcan, English, Asian, Black - the asian woman
speaks
: with a perfect american accent.
: >
: > I'm curious as to how you are defining "more":
Multiculturalism has nothing to do with accents. A multicultural
bridge means that there are many different cultures present. A bridge
where everyone has the same accent merely means everyone has been in
the same location for quite a while and have acquired the same
dialect.

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