Timeline for What race was supposed to be what people?
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| Aug 4, 2016 at 6:24 | comment | added | ApproachingDarknessFish | Funny, I always thought the Klingons were America and the Federation was the Russians. | |
| Dec 14, 2015 at 19:23 | answer | added | Keeleon | timeline score: 6 | |
| Dec 4, 2015 at 20:39 | comment | added | GreenMatt | @Hypnosifl: I get what you're saying about the Romulans not being similar to the PRC. The idea that the Romulans represent the PRC comes from drawing parallels between the show and the geopolitical situation in the world at the time the TOS was created, when there were three superpowers: the US, the USSR, and the PRC. If the Federation is somewhat analagous to the US (or an idealized UN led by the US - maybe NATO would be a better analogy) and we see the Klingons as the Soviets, that leaves the Romulans to represent the PRC. | |
| Dec 4, 2015 at 20:11 | comment | added | Hypnosifl | @GreenMatt - In what sense are the Romulans more similar to the People's Republic of China than any other militaristic government? Just because they were isolationists in the original series? And if this was the intent, why model their terminology and government so much on the ancient Romans? ("Romulans" comes from "Romulus", one of the mythical founders of Rome, in the original series they were governed by a "Praetor" and TNG revealed they have a "Senate", etc.) | |
| Dec 4, 2015 at 19:32 | comment | added | DJClayworth | Even if some of the races were strongly analogous to Earth peoples, that's no guarantee that all of them were. | |
| Dec 4, 2015 at 18:48 | comment | added | System Down | I don't think it was ever as cut and dry as you believe it is. I mean interpretations on who the Klingon and the Romulans represent are as diverse as it gets, and there's no consensus that I know of that says Klingon are X and Romulans are Y. | |
| Dec 4, 2015 at 18:35 | comment | added | GreenMatt | I have no back up for this, so am commenting: If the Klingons represented the Soviets, the Romulans represented the People's Republic of China, or so I've heard. I believe the Federation was supposed to be an idealized United Nations, with Earth representing the United States. I don't see other parallels, nor have I read/heard about any. I've read that much of Vulcan culture was somewhat modeled on Zen (or Chan if you prefer), but I don't see that as the same sort of thing. Later on (TNG, and later) I think they just created new alien races because that's what they were known for. | |
| Dec 4, 2015 at 18:30 | comment | added | Hypnosifl | "There's little question to me that they and other Star Trek races represent real people groups" Why do you believe that? It sounds like what you're suggesting would make all the alien races in the show into thinly-veiled national or ethnic stereotypes. | |
| Dec 4, 2015 at 17:53 | comment | added | Mr Lister | Then who or what is Chekov supposed to be? | |
| Dec 4, 2015 at 17:36 | history | asked | Jerry Nixon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |