Star Trek presents us with a glittering, hopeful future full of worldwide peace and cooperation, scientific achievement, and universal discovery. It's a utopian society wherein all races (black, white, human, or alien) and genders (male, female, or alien-with-boobs) are considered equal. However, there are some horrible implications behind all the awesome technology and progressive ideology that are never addressed, probably because they make everyone in Star Trek look like incompetent goofs, closeted racists, or burgeoning sociopaths.

5 Kirk Is Destined to Accidentally Start a Horrific War

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In the 2009 reboot, cadet James T. Kirk gets thrown headlong into a desperate situation that sees him promoted to first officer and then to captain of the Enterprise within the space of 12 hours. And why not? His bold heroics and plucky determination save the ship, its crew, and indeed the entire planet Earth from getting blasted into scattered bloody chunks of smoldering space murder by a scowling trench coat alien with tribal tattoos and the face of Eric Bana.

So, at the end, Kirk attends a spirited awards ceremony that in no way resembles the ending of Star Wars, and Starfleet awards him with permanent command of the Enterprise.



"I thought we were switching to the green uniforms next week."

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The Horror:

Think about how easy it is to unwittingly insult someone from another country if you don't know every little thing about their culture (innocent hand gestures that are friendly in one country will start a fistfight in another). Now imagine the potential for disaster when talking to someone from another species. See, that's why, in the Star Trek universe, it takes so much education and training to become captain of a starship -- in the original TV series, Kirk was the youngest captain in Starfleet history ... after a mere 14 years of training.