User blog comment:TrekkyStar/I don't hate Star Trek/@comment-1340488-20091026153142

I agree with what you have to say.

There's no way that the United Earth could have done away with all religion and yet still be as good and blameless as they claim to be.

Plus, the episodes you noted where religion was neutrally recognized all appeared in The Original Series, when the media was still very opinionated and refused to touch certain issues in a way that might appear offensive (the original draft of Cloud Minders was scrapped for one that lost the meaning behind what was supposed to have happened).

I don't hate Star Trek either. I personally wish that there COULD be a society where we could explore the stars without fear of molestation because of our race or ancestry.

However, I don't feel that certain ideologies mentioned in TNG are compatible with a free society (a utopia, if you will). It was these incompatibilities that urged me to write Star Trek: Conflict. Yes, its a lot darker even than DS9 or Voyager and has gotten some (not the same, maybe) flame for being "opposite" what fans believe Star Trek was.

Live long and proser...and may God (or whichever one you worship) bless.

Bookworm1138 15:31, October 26, 2009 (UTC)