Shut Up and Watch the Damn Movie!
mikethemadbiologist | July 13, 2007Sometimes a giant transforming robot isn't a Republican, it's just a giant transforming robot. A few years back, when Star Trek was all the rage, someone wrote a literary criticism of Star Trek, "The Literary Galaxy of Star Trek: An Analysis of References And Themes in the Television Series." It was interesting, but often wrong.
I remember two distinct errors. First, there was the claim that the transporters represented...hell, something. In fact, the reason the transporters were developed wasn't an attempt to make a subtle point, but because the original show couldn't afford the cost of…