evcake wrote:But TOS is totally holier-than-thou hippie crap. It began in 1966, and it shows.
Sorry, not seeing that. TOS was optimistic in a Kennedy-esque fashion. This was before the "hippie" mentality took over. Kirk & Co. weren't this perfect evolved people. Kirk even said himself that he needed his "darker" side and that humans weren't perfect but that they could strive to continuously suppress violent tendencies. In fact Kirk rebelled at notions of perfect societies (like Vaal, Eminiar VII and countless ruling computers), since he deemed them against nature.