This article was a very interesting read as it flirted with unconventional means of pedagogy. Personally, I have never been a fan of Star Trek, but I am a fan of the characters i.e. Captain Kirk, Spock etc. I never thought of the geopolitical themes as extensively as Saunders with regards to Star Trek, but they are there. The part of the article that got my attention the most was the connections he made with science fiction, race and colonialism.
More specifically, I am interested in probing his comment:
"As a genre obsessed with colonialism and imperial adventure, science fiction frequently inverts the genuine threat that Euro-American imperialism has posed to the non-white peoples of the world, presenting instead an imaginary realm where ‘white people’ are threatened with subjugation or annihilation by a hostile alien force"
Hopefully, I'm not getting off topic or misinterpreting this by mentioning it, but I thought "imaginary realm" was an interesting description to describe the fear of the majority being taken over by the minority. When history shows that the grassroots of racism is based in fear (Rushton,1994). It widely known that many of the shows from yester-decades
Rushton,J.P., (1994) Race Evolution & Behaviour: A Life Perspective. New Brunswick,NJ: Transaction