Stupid essays about Shakespeare and Star Trek

[beccaelizabeth]

How exactly is the Prime Directive and a policy of non-interference colonialist?
I just read an essay with a conclusion including the phrase "dodgy and vaguely colonialist policies of 'noninterference'"
I thought colonialism was about saying we know best so we'll go teach them with guns, I don't get how leaving people alone is colonialist.

Another bit of the same essay tried to argue that Shakespeare quotes in Star Trek don't relate to the theme of the episodes. It argues this on the basis of a website that collects the quotes without analysing or mentioning the theme of the episodes. I figure this might be because a Star Trek site assumes that Star Trek viewers know the Star Trek episodes, but might not have noticed all the Shakespeare. Also because it is a quotes site, not a piece of literary criticism.

Stupid chapter took me two days to read cause I had to stop whenever it got too stupid.

Comments

[anne_d]

I thought colonialism was about saying we know best so we'll go teach them with guns, I don't get how leaving people alone is colonialist.

That's what I thought, too. We're right, that writer is wrong.

Anne, not exactly suffering fools gladly today

[darthhellokitty.livejournal.com]

Maybe the fact that they constantly break the Prime Directive is colonialist, but I don't know how the Prime Directive itself would be!