it wasn't really about 'aliens', was it...

[ Continuing the thread from the last day of October... ] This surely isn't an original notion (which of course doesn't prevent it from being likely true): Star Trek's universe of aliens wasn't really about what was 'out there' in the cosmos, it was about what was within us, as humans. Take any major non-human entity depicted in that show, and one can map an aspect of humanity onto it, hence the condition of us wrestling with one of our psycho-social, cultural, or technological constructs. The Vulcans? Our higher selves, I think. The Klingons? Our tribal, warlike selves. The Romulans? Our militaristic, political selves. The Borg? Our techno-fascistic selves. ::chuckle:: Q? Our notions of the divine, godhood, deities, etc. Never mind the fact that so far we have had not a single legit, proven instance of organic life elsewhere in the cosmos, let alone contact with non-human species (marooned on their own planet or spacefaring), we are left with the plain reality that our science…

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